Trump, Kim to meet in Vietnam Feb. 27

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U.S. President Donald Trump says he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on Feb. 27 to Feb. 28 for their second summit, local media report said on Wednesday.

Trump told Congress in his State of the Union address that as part of a bold new diplomacy, the U.S. would continue its  historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula.



US President Donald Trump (R) and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un shake hands following a signing ceremony during their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12, 2018.
“Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped, and there has not been a missile launch in 15 months.

“If I had not been elected president of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion be in a major war with North Korea.

“Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong Un is a good one,’’ he stressed

The pair held their first summit in Singapore in June, the first time a sitting U.S. president has met a North Korean leader.

Though Kim vowed to denuclearise the peninsula at the talks, no concrete details were given on how or when this would happen and little progress appears to have been made since then.

Dan Coats, Trump’s own director of national intelligence, recently contradicted the U.S. president on North Korea, warning that Pyongyang was “unlikely’’ to give up its nuclear weapons because “leaders view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival.’’

Kim has also criticised the U.S. for maintaining and implementing sanctions on Pyongyang, warning in his New Year’s address that they could “block the path to denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula forever.’’

Trump’s speech came as U.S. envoy Stephen Biegun reportedly arrived in Pyongyang for talks on the summit with his North Korean counterpart Kim Hyok Chol, regarded as Kim Jong Un’s right hand man.

Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/02/trump-kim-to-meet-in-vietnam-feb-27.html

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