Trump says will meet with North Korean leader in May or early June

[webfact]

Trump says will meet with North Korean leader in May or early June

By Steve Holland and Christine Kim

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks as he paid an unofficial visit to Beijing, China, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang March 28, 2018. KCNA/via Reuters

 

WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he planned to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month or in early June and hoped the discussions would ultimately lead to an end of the North's nuclear weapons program.

 

"We'll be meeting with them sometime in May or early June and I think there'll be great respect paid by both parties and hopefully we'll be able to make a deal on the de-nuking of North Korea," Trump told reporters at the beginning of a Cabinet meeting.

 

"They've said so. We've said so," Trump said. "Hopefully, it'll be a relationship that's much different than it's been for many, many years."

 

Trump's comments came just a few hours before North Korea mentioned talks with the United States and South Korea for the first time, as the North's state media said Kim Jong Un chaired a party meeting on Monday in which he assessed future talks with Washington and his upcoming summit with South Korea on April 27.

 

"(Kim Jong Un) set forth the strategic and tactical issues to be maintained by the Workers' Party of Korea including the future policy of international relations and the orientation corresponding to them," the North's central news agency said on Tuesday.

 

Any meeting between Kim and Trump would come after the two Koreas hold their first summit in more than a decade later this month.

North Korea has told the United States it is prepared to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula when Kim meets Trump, a U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday.

 

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. and North Korean officials have held secret contacts recently in which Pyongyang directly confirmed its willingness to hold the unprecedented summit.

 

The communications, still at a preliminary stage, have involved State Department officials talking to North Korea, apparently through its United Nations mission, and intelligence officers from both sides using a separate back channel, the official said. Before that, Washington had relied mostly onSouth Korea's assurances of Kim's intentions.

 

Kim Jong Un as well as high ranking officials from the North have been engaging other countries in a flurry of diplomacy in recent weeks with the North Korean leader making a surprise visit to China last month, talking with President Xi Jinping.

 

It was Kim's first known trip outside the North since he assumed power in late 2011.

 

A North Korean delegation led by Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho is in Russia this week after a visit to Turkmenistan, the North's state media said separately on Tuesday.

 

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev held talks on Monday with Ri about the options for dialogue between Pyongyang and Seoul, TASS news agency reported on Monday. Ri is also scheduled to speak with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday.

 

(Reporting by Steve Holland and Christine Kim; Writing by David Alexander; Editing by Tim Ahmann and Jonathan Oatis)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-04-10

[sirmud63]

i have huge doubts that it will happen .

just more media hype .

[Srikcir]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

North Korea has told the United States it is prepared to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula

Not of North Korea but of the whole peninsula!

ROK doesn't possess nuclear weapons nor even attempted to develop them. Since the last US nuclear weapons were withdrawn from South Korea in 1991, the United States has protected South Korea and Japan under a “nuclear umbrella” using nuclear bombers and submarines based elsewhere.

 

So to Kim "denuclearization" may mean something different than what Trump and the US thinks. That should be clarified before any summit meeting.

 

Trump believes it means Kim handing over his nuclear weapons and missile systems and allowing international inspectors to check that the regime is keeping its word.

Kim might instead want to see the US entire nuclear umbrella as a minimum covering Japan and South Korea removed.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2017.1388656

 

I could see China partner with Kim to further ask removal of all US troops in South Korea and maybe promote something like a SALT treaty to limit and account for all US nuclear armed forces (naval and submarine) in the areas of Japan, South Korea and the South China Sea. Such a treaty would limit and account for North Korea nuclear weapons but not eliminate them entirely.

[juice777]

Not of North Korea but of the whole peninsula!
ROK doesn't possess nuclear weapons nor even attempted to develop them. Since the last US nuclear weapons were withdrawn from South Korea in 1991, the United States has protected South Korea and Japan under a “nuclear umbrella” using nuclear bombers and submarines based elsewhere.
 
So to Kim "denuclearization" may mean something different than what Trump and the US thinks. That should be clarified before any summit meeting.
 
Trump believes it means Kim handing over his nuclear weapons and missile systems and allowing international inspectors to check that the regime is keeping its word.
Kim might instead want to see the US entire nuclear umbrella as a minimum covering Japan and South Korea removed.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2017.1388656
 
I could see China partner with Kim to further ask removal of all US troops in South Korea and maybe promote something like a SALT treaty to limit and account for all US nuclear armed forces (naval and submarine) in the areas of Japan, South Korea and the South China Sea. Such a treaty would limit and account for North Korea nuclear weapons but not eliminate them entirely.

"I could see China partner with Kim to further ask removal of all US troops in South Koreal"

Yes just in time to send them to Syria.


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[IAMHERE]

I can see everybody in the room poisoned with some military grade poison, even the body double of the NK leader. Trump is nuts if he gets in the same room as NK leader; probably a body double.

[juice777]

I can see everybody in the room poisoned with some military grade poison, even the body double of the NK leader. Trump is nuts if he gets in the same room as NK leader; probably a body double.

Now that would be the story of the century.

 

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[mrwebb8825]

On 4/10/2018 at 9:02 PM, IAMHERE said:

I can see everybody in the room poisoned with some military grade poison, even the body double of the NK leader. Trump is nuts if he gets in the same room as NK leader; probably a body double.

I warned about this weeks ago when he 1st agreed to meet Kim. It would be very wise to escort Kim and company into a detection and decontamination site with President Trump and company in another city or state. Take a DNA sample from Kim and compare it against his brother he had killed last year to make sure it's really him.

I still say the ONLY viable location for this meeting is the states to assure 100% control (at least 90% control) of everything that happens and to prevent as much as possible anything going awry though some crazy assassination attempt. IF Kim and company are found to be making such an attempt, an immediate military launch should take place without ANY prior warning to anyone and just take NK out of the game entirely.