THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

U.S. President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s assertion that Canada “will not be pushed around” will end up costing Canadians “a lot of money.”

Trump gave a wide-ranging news conference in Singapore on Tuesday following his landmark summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in which the two leaders spoke for several hours. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States was stopping “very provocative” and costly military exercises with South Korea to facilitate denuclearization negotiations with North Korea. They had appeared cautious and serious when they first arrived for the summit at the Capella hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa, a resort island with luxury hotels, a casino, manmade beaches and a Universal Studios theme park. “If diplomacy does not move in the right direction ... those measures will increase.”

The White House said later that discussions with North Korea had moved “more quickly than expected” and Mr Trump would leave Singapore on Tuesday night after the summit, rather than Wednesday, as scheduled earlier. Before signing what Mr Trump described as a “comprehensive”document, Mr Kim said the two leaders had a historic meeting “and decided to leave the past behind.
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un meet for a historic summit on Sentosa Island in Singapore. This marks the first time that the leaders of both countries have met.