Donald Trump has announced that his June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong un is back on. The president announced the historic Singapore meeting would go ahead just a week after he canceled it, following an hour-long meeting with Kim’s right-hand man Kim Yong Chol in the oval office.
Yong Chol delivered a letter from Kim, whose contents Mr Trump says were ‘very nice’ and ‘very interesting’, but declined to share any further details. He told reporters on the White House lawn: ‘We will be meeting on june 12 in Singapore.
It went very well. It’s really a get to know you type of situation. ‘Mike (Pompeo, Secretary of State) has spent two days doing this, we’ve gotten to know their people very well.
President Trump said he was confident North Korea would dump its nuclear weapons program, and said he believed the secretive state was finally ready to open itself up to the world. He added: ‘I think they want to do that, I know they want to do that.
‘They want other things along the line.’ He also toned down the harsh rhetoric previously used against Kim’s regime, saying: ‘I don’t even want to use the term maximum pressure anymore, because…we’re getting along.’
The president reiterated that he had no plans to sign anything on June 12, but added that he looked forward to lifting economic sanctions currently imposed on North Korea.
‘I think it’ll be a process. I never said it goes in one meeting. ‘I think it’s going to be a process. but the relationships are building, and I think that’s a very positive thing.’ The summit was first canceled by Trump on May 24 after North Korea’s foreign secretary branded US Vice President Mike Pence ‘stupid.’
New Secretary of State Mike Pompeo later added that the US had struggled to pin down North Korea on the planned logistics of the meeting.
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