Trump calls stepping into North Korea an 'honor' after he became the first sitting U.S. president to do so

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.
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President Trump made history on Sunday when he became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot on North Korean soil.

Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, where the two shook hands before Kim invited Trump to cross the boundary into North Korea.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.