{"id":258242,"date":"2025-10-29T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258242\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:31:11","slug":"live-updates-trump-in-south-korea-for-apec-summit-meeting-with-xi-jinping-as-government-shutdown-stretches-into-29th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258242\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump in South Korea for APEC summit, meeting with Xi Jinping, as government shutdown stretches into 29th day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhbj6b00000c3b6nxc7zbqo6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            US President Donald Trump has become the first American leader to receive South Korea\u2019s highest honor, the Grand Order of Mugunghwa, which has been awarded to him in recognition of his efforts to fulfil peace on the Korean Peninsula.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhbjscgr00123b6n255btcbk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI would like to wear it right now,\u201d Trump said, after being presented the medal by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Gyeongju, where he\u2019s attending the APEC CEO summit.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhbj6b00000d3b6nvu3m6gv1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump said he would cherish the \u201cbeautiful\u201d medal, saying it was a \u201cgreat honor\u201d to receive it and adding that US-South Korean relations would only get stronger.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhbj6b00000e3b6n8nve20kh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Lee praised Trump\u2019s efforts to resolve issues with North Korea and, again, requested him to play the role of \u201cpeacemaker,\u201d the Seoul\u2019s presidential office said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2243442224.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_1280,c_fill\/f_avif\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung review an honour guard at the Gyeongju National Museum in Gyeongju on Wednesday.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"4838\" width=\"7257\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhbj6b00000f3b6n4ir256ty@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            When the two met at the White House in August, Lee asked Trump to play the role of peacemaker to improve inter-Korean relations.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhbj6b00000g3b6n3wl07tnc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            During his first term in office, Trump held a series of unprecedented meeting with North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un. There has been speculation the pair could meet again while Trump is in Asia this week, but earlier on Wednesday Trump say he might need to \u201ccome back\u201d for that.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhbj6b00000h3b6n6t1kmtl5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The grand order of Mugunghwa is usually presented to South Korean presidents but can also be given to presidents of allies who significantly contribute to securing South Korea\u2019s national security.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmhbj6b00000i3b6njn1rsg69@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            French President Emmanuel Macron was previously presented the medal by former President Moon Jae-in in 2018, according to Yonhap.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has become the first American leader to receive South Korea\u2019s highest honor, the Grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,29430,100016,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-258242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-hnk","10":"tag-intl","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}