North Korean state media on July 1 predictably afforded prominent and positive coverage to the leader’s “historic meeting” with the U.S. President in Panmunjom the previous day.

The Kim-Trump meeting came exactly one week after North Korean state media reported on the leader’s receiving a letter from Trump, which NK Pro assessed was a signal that Pyongyang was prepared to take a more forward-leaning attitude toward the resumption of talks with the U.S. 

Also notable about state media coverage of the Panmunjom meeting was the reappearance of the term “denuclearization”; state media