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Trump says looking at US-DPRK Summit on June 12

Xinhua | Updated: 2018-05-27 09:30
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WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he is looking at the Singapore summit with Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on June 12.

"We're looking at June 12 in Singapore. It hasn't changed," Trump told reporters at the White House, adding that talks were progressing well.

"We're doing very well in terms of the summit. It's moving along very nicely," he said.

Trump canceled the scheduled meeting on Thursday, saying that it will not happen "based on the tremendous anger and open hostility" displayed in the DPRK's most recent statements.

However, he reversed course just one day after the announcement. Both sides wanted the meeting to happen and it could still go ahead after productive talks, he said.

Just hours earlier, the DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim expressed his "fixed will" to hold the summit when meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in Saturday at the truce village Panmunjom.

During the second meeting within a month on the northern side of the demarcation line of Panmunjom, Kim promised to further push forward the peace process on the Korean Peninsula by working for the goal of denuclearization and improving inter-Korean ties.

Pyongyang suspended the high-level talks with the ROK on May 16 in view of recent provocative acts such as the joint military exercises between the United States and the ROK.

DPRK top leader expresses 'fixed will' to meet Trump

PYONGYANG -- Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has expressed his "fixed will" to hold a summit with US President Donald Trump, when he met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in Saturday at the truce village Panmunjom, said Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) Sunday.

Kim also promised to further push forward the peace process on the Korean Peninsula by working for the goal of denuclearization and improving inter-Korean ties.

During the meeting, Kim thanked Moon for the efforts made by him for the DPRK-US summit scheduled for June 12, and expressed his fixed will on the historic DPRK-US summit talk, said KCNA.

"Kim Jong-un told Moon Jae-in to positively cooperate with each other as ever to improve the DPRK-US relations and establish mechanism for permanent and durable peace," said the report.

The surprise inter-Korean summit came soon after Trump said he remained open to a summit with Kim in Singapore on June 12.

Kim and Moon met for the second time within one month on Saturday on the northern side of the demarcation line of Panmunjom.

Moon says both Kim, Trump wish success of DPRK-US summit wholeheartedly

SEOUL -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Sunday that both top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump wished the success of their summit, originally scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, "wholeheartedly."

Moon made the comments in his nationally televised speech after holding a surprise summit with Kim on Saturday at the border village of Panmunjom and a summit with Trump in Washington earlier this week.

The South Korean leader said he met with Kim for the second time in a month following the third-ever inter-Korean summit on the South Korean side of Panmunjom on April 27.

The second meeting between Moon and Kim was held on the DPRK side of Panmunjom at the request of Kim, Moon said.

US President Trump sent a letter to the DPRK leader on Thursday, saying that their planned meeting in Singapore on June 12 would not happen due to "tremendous anger and open hostility" displayed in Pyongyang's recent statements.

 

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