On
again? Trump says still chance of June 12 North Korea summit
25
May, 2018
WASHINGTON/SEOUL
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday dangled the
possibility that a June 12 summit with North Korea’s leader Kim
Jong Un could still take place, just a day after he cancelled the
meeting citing Pyongyang’s “open hostility.”
Trump
indicated the summit could be salvaged after welcoming a conciliatory
statement from North Korea saying it remained open to talks.
“It
was a very nice statement they put out,” Trump told reporters at
the White House. “We’ll see what happens - it could even be the
12th.
“We’re
talking to them now. They very much want to do it. We’d like to do
it.”
After
years of tension over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme, Kim
and Trump agreed this month to hold what would be the first meeting
between a serving U.S. president and a North Korean leader. The plan
followed months of war threats and insults between the leaders over
North Korea’s development of missiles capable of reaching the
United States.
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