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Bloomberg. The main event then, the United States and North Korea agreeing to seek complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula following a historic

summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.

Yet the Accords set no deadline and left the path to disarmament undefined. The details are light. The headlines, impressive.

Blumberg, managing editor Dan 10K, George is now from Singapore.

Dan, The Theatrix, the pictures, the photographs, the videos, they're all theatrics the pictures the photographs the videos they're all theatrical it's what you expected the

details though what is the detail of this agreement down well there's not much in terms of

substance in this agreement.

Most of what we saw today we've seen before, and in fact it was a lot lighter than even

skeptics were hoping for.

Complete denuclearization is a term that North Korea

uses to suggest not only the removal of its own nuclear weapons but also the

nuclear weapons that the United States has in the region to protect allies

South Korea and Japan.

So that alone, to just that Trump didn't forget too much.

Going into it, they kept talking about complete verifiable

irreversible denuclearization,

which is considered the gold standard

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