Over the Line:President Trump stepped across the Korean de-militarized zone today and shook hands with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Trump became the first sitting President to set foot in North Korea.

  The two men agreed to continue talks between their countries.

  “It is good to see you again,” Kim told the president through an interpreter. “I never expected to meet you in this place.”

 “Big moment, big moment,” Mr. Trump told him.

 The two then went into a building known as Freedom House for a private conversation that lasted an hour.

 The meeting was the result of a tweet Trump posted while travelling in Asia, inviting Kim to come meet him at the border. Both sides scrambled to make it happen. The New York Postlabelled it “Shake News.”

  Despite what appears to be a friendly relationship between the two men, previous discussions about removing nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula have accomplished nothing. Despite that, Trump took a swipe at the press for not giving him credit. He said, “I keep saying that for the people who say nothing has been accomplished. So much has been accomplished.”

  The president later tweeted, “Stood on the soil of North Korea, an important statement for all, and a great honor!”

  He felt honored to meet a dictator on his own turf.

Border Scuffle:CNN’sJim Acosta reports on Twitter that, “New WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham got into a scuffle with the North Koreans to move members of the WH press pool into position to cover Trump and Kim, I’m told. Grisham was a bit bruised. Source called it ‘an all out brawl.’”

Never Forget:Former New York City police detective Luis Alvarez, who was a leader in the fight for the Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund and recently appeared before Congress with comedian Jon Stewart, died yesterday at age 53. 

   Alvarez traced his colorectal cancer to the three months he spent in the rubble of the World Trade Center’s twin towers after the 2001 terrorist attacks. He had a wife and three children.

  Alvarez was weak and wasted when he sat beside Stewart. “This fund isn’t a ticket to paradise, it’s to provide our families with care,” he told the House Judiciary subcommittee June on 11. “You all said you would never forget. Well, I’m here to make sure that you don’t.”

The News Roundup:The FDA has identified 16 brands of dog food associated with heart disease in dogs. — The Dutch railway Nederlandse Spoorwegen, which was used to transport victims of the Holocaust in World war II, has agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars in compensation to victims and their direct descendants. It amounts to about $6000 to $17,000 each. Increasingly, European companies that cooperated with the Nazis are offering compensation. — Fifty years after the infamous Stonewall riots that broke open the gay rights movement in America, New York City is hosting a gay pride week that seems to have drawn celebrants from all over the country.

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