US President Donald Trump announced that his historic summit with Kim Jong Un — the first-ever between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader — will take place in Singapore on June 12.
The location and date of the landmark meeting were announced in a presidential tweet just hours after Trump welcomed to the United States three American prisoners released by Pyongyang.
“We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!” Trump wrote.
The talks, which are expected to last one day, are set to focus on North Korea’s rapidly advancing nuclear and ballistic weapons programs.
“I think it will be a big success,” Trump said as he boarded Air Force One, on his way to a political rally in Indiana.
US officials said the release of Americans Kim Hak-song, Tony Kim, and Kim Dong-chul removed a major obstacle to the summit, providing Trump with some tangible evidence that his twin-track policy of engagement and “maximum pressure” was working.
“We’re not under any illusions about who these people are. We know who we are dealing with here,” said Victoria Coates, of the National Security Council.
“But we got, up front, our people home.”
Source: AFP
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