North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got his first in-person impression of CNN's Jim Acosta when he emerged from a private meeting with President Trump.

Trump and Kim walked along the promenade at Singapore's Capella Hotel Tuesday morning local time, trailed by two translators, after leaving the room where they had their 35-minute private meeting, where Acosta and other journalists awaited and shouted questions.

Acosta asked Trump how things were going so far.

"Very good. Very, very good," the president said in reply.

Then Acosta, along with at least one other journalist, posed a question to Kim: "Will you give up your nuclear weapons, sir?"

But Trump and Kim had already begun walking away and the queries went unanswered.



"Mr. Kim, will you give up your nuclear weapons, sir?" A reporter questions Kim Jong Un during his summit appearance with President Trump in Singapore - @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/mdqdGuGErg — NBC News (@NBCNews) June 12, 2018



Setting a framework for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is a focus of the historic summit between Trump and Kim.

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"I don't think Kim Jong Un is used to the voice of Jim Acosta of CNN on a regular basis," MSNBC's Brian Williams remarked to giggles while on the air.

Acosta has clashed with the White House on numerous occasions. In April he called Trump’s attacks on the media “an act” that could inspire violence against journalists.

Last month he challenged Trump to sit down for an interview with him.