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. Picture: AFP PHOTO
US President Donald Trump said today he expected to meet again soon with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying he saw “tremendous progress” in easing tensions.
“It looks like we’ll have a second summit quite soon,” Trump told reporters at the United Nations.
“As you know Kim Jong-un wrote a letter – a beautiful letter – asking for a second meeting and we will be doing that,” added Trump, who met with Kim in Singapore in June.
He said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – whose last planned visit to Pyongyang was abruptly scuttled by the White House – would arrange the summit “in the immediate future.”
Trump’s remarks come one year after he stunned the United Nations General Assembly with a blistering attack on North Korea in his speech, threatening to “totally destroy” the communist state and mocking the projectile-building Kim as “rocket man.”
But Trump has since billed his diplomacy with North Korea as a key diplomatic success, saying that risks of a conflict have receded.
“Tremendous progress on North Korea,” Trump told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York.
“That was a very dangerous time. This is one year later, a much different time.”
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