Trump blasts media for not reporting success of his North Korea summit as he flies to Helsinki for Putin meeting

  • President Trump slammed the media for not reporting his North Korea success
  • He called the 'fake news' the 'enemy of the people'
  • His defense of the North Korea summit comes as concerns grow about what expectations and accomplishments will come out of Helsinki meeting
  • Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have their sit down on Monday 

President Donald Trump is blasting the 'fake news' for not reporting the success out of his North Korea summit as he heads to Helsinki to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The president complained there hasn't been positive media coverage of the lack of missiles or rockets fired in nine months from the rogue state as concerns have emerged about what concessions he might give to Moscow at Monday's meeting and how there appears to be no clear agenda for his sit down with Putin.

But Trump didn't acknowledge the questions he faces as he flies east across Europe and, instead, touted the success from his June summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. 

'There hasn't been a missile or rocket fired in 9 months in North Korea, there have been no nuclear tests and we got back our hostages. Who knows how it will all turn out in the end, but why isn't the Fake News talking about these wonderful facts? Because it is FAKE NEWS!,' he wrote on twitter Sunday afternoon as he flew from Scotland to Helsinki.

Trump blasts the media ahead of his sit down with Putin

Trump blasts the media ahead of his sit down with Putin

Trump called the press the 'enemy of the people'

Trump called the press the 'enemy of the people'

President Trump and Melania Trump board Air Force One in Scotland in route to Helsinki

President Trump and Melania Trump board Air Force One in Scotland in route to Helsinki

He is also painting the media as the 'enemy of the people.'

'Much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people,' he wrote in another tweet.

Trump's tweet storm also comes as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emerged from his meeting with North Korean officials last week with no details on a process for denuclearization and no signs of action from Pyongyang that they were dismantling their nuclear program.  

And it follows a report that North Korean officials did not show up Thursday for a meeting with Americans to discuss the return of the remains of those U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War, according to officials.  

The repatriation of remains was one of the key points of Kim's deal with Trump in Singapore.

It was seen as one of the few tangible points in the agreement and one the president has bragged about repeatedly.

But that meeting did take place on Sunday, according to Pompeo, who tweeted about it.

'Today, representatives from the US held the first General-officer talks with DPRK since '09. They met to discuss the return of US service members' remains. They also agreed to re-commence field operations in the DPRK to search for the est 5300 Americans who never returned home,' the secretary of state wrote on Sunday afternoon.

He noted an additional meeting on Monday will figure out the next steps in the repatriation process.

'On July 16, working level meetings between US and DPRK officials are scheduled to begin to coordinate next steps, including the transfer of American service members' remains already collected in the DPRK,' Pompeo wrote.

Last week, Trump touted a 'very nice note' from Kim that suggested the two leaders should meet again but made no mention of the denuclearization process.

'Great progress being made!,' Trump tweeted Thursday with copies of the note shown in Korean and English.  

The North Korean leader referred to 'taking practical action' as an 'epochal process' in his letter to the American president.

'Wishing that the invariable trust and confidence in Your Excellency Mr. President will be further strengthened in the future process of taking practical actions, I extended my conviction that the epochal progress in promoting the DPRK-U.S. relations will bring our next meeting forward,' Kim wrote.

Concerns have been raised that the Singapore agreement lacked requirements for any specific actions for North Korea to take on the road to denuclearization and there have been similar worries about what may happen with Trump's meeting with Putin on Monday.

President Trump golfed in Scotland before he headed to Finland to meet with Putin

President Trump golfed in Scotland before he headed to Finland to meet with Putin

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet on Monday

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet on Monday

President Trump is touting the success of his summit with Kim Jong-Un as concerns grow about his meeting with Putin

President Trump is touting the success of his summit with Kim Jong-Un as concerns grow about his meeting with Putin

Trump's touting of his success with his last one-on-one world leader meeting as he heads to Helsinki with no clear goal for his sit down withPutin and 'low expectations' in its outcome. 

There has not been high-level planning sessions for Helsinki, where the two world leaders have their sit-down on Monday.  

Additionally neither the U.S. nor Russia have not agreed upon any 'deliverables' to come out of Monday's meeting.

The president also won't give his goals for the summit - until after the world leaders meet.

When CBS News asked him about his goals for his sit down with Putin, Trump responded: 'I'll let you know after the meeting' and promised 'nothing bad' will come out of summit.  

Foreign policy experts around the world fear Trump may make concessions to Putin when the two leaders have their one-on-one time with no one else in the room but the translators. 

Trump could promise to ease sanctions or cut U.S. military operations in Europe without consulting the State Department or the Pentagon. Moscow is under U.S. and international sanctions for its seizure of Crimea in 2014.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted the U.S. has met with North Korea about repatriating American remains from the Korean War

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted the U.S. has met with North Korea about repatriating American remains from the Korean War

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made no progress with North Korea in meetings there 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made no progress with North Korea in meetings there 

President Trump wouldn't give his goals for his sit down with Vladimir Putin

President Trump wouldn't give his goals for his sit down with Vladimir Putin

There have been questions about the lack of specifics in the agreement President Trump signed with Kim Jong Un

There have been questions about the lack of specifics in the agreement President Trump signed with Kim Jong Un

The president made a similar move in his meeting with Kim, where he announced the U.S. would cease a joint military exercise with South Korea - a major concession to Pyongyang and a surprise to the Pentagon and U.S. allies.  

Trump was asked on Thursday if he would consider ending U.S. military exercises in the Baltic states and he replied: 'Perhaps we'll talk about that' in his meeting with Putin, which sounded alarm bells to some.

Still the president said the fact the two world leaders are meeting on Monday is a positive sign.

'I think it's a good thing to meet. I do believe in meetings,' he told CBS News. 'Nothing bad is going to come out of it, and maybe some good will come out.'

Trump, in the meantime, boasted last week at the NATO meeting that North Korea is denuclearizing because they're 'blowing up another' missile site and there's 'no more music playing at the border.'

'I really think that we established very good relationships,' Trump said Thursday at his press conference at the NATO summit in Brussels. 'They've blown up a site. I hear they're blowing up another site, missile site.'

It's unclear what missile site the president was referring to and there have been no reports of such action taken by North Korea.  

Meanwhile, North Korea has made no public statements about the future of its nuclear weapons program. 

In May, North Korean officials detonated explosives at a site where it conducted all six of its nuclear tests to date and called it the dismantling of the facility. Three tunnels were demolished at the site in Punggye-ri, which is the North's only known nuclear test site. 

However, experts caution that there were no officials on hand from the United Nations or any other independent body to verify whether the site had been completely destroyed or whether it could be repaired should North Korea resume testing. 

Satellite images from the country a few weeks ago suggest improvements have been made at a rapid pace at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center.

The analysis from the group 38 North, which monitors North Korea, came nine days after Kim signed an agreement with Trump in Singapore. 

The level of operations at the facility is not clear but it raises questions of how Kim is curbing his country's nuclear program in the wake of his historic meeting with Trump.

The president, however, has remained firm in his belief the nuclear threat is gone. 

Trump tweeted after landing back in the States after his meeting with Kim: 'There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.' 

But questions remain about the implementation of the Singapore agreement, which was criticized for lacking specifics, a timeline and accountability measures.