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White House says Trump and Abe agree to meet before expected U.S.-North Korea summit

 

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands as they hold a joint press conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 18, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Files

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed North Korea by phone on Monday and confirmed they would meet before an expected U.S.-North Korea summit, the White House said.

 

A White House statement said that in their call, Trump and Abe "affirmed the shared imperative of achieving the complete and permanent dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and ballistic missile programs."

 

Earlier, Japan's Kyodo news agency quoted Abe as saying that the two leaders had agreed to cooperate to make the summit between the U.S. president and North Korean leader meaningful.

 

Trump last week pulled out of the summit with Kim, planned for June 12 in Singapore, before announcing he had reconsidered and that U.S. and North Korean officials were meeting to work out details.

 

On Sunday, the U.S. State Department said U.S. and North Korean officials had met at Panmunjom, a village in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that runs along the heavily armed border between North and South Korea.

 

A "pre-advance" team of U.S. officials has also traveled to Singapore to meet with North Koreans there, the White House said.

 

While both Trump and Kim have appeared eager to hold the summit, the two sides have remained far apart on the key issue of denuclearization, with North Korea rejecting U.S. demands for it to unilaterally abandon a nuclear weapons program that now threatens the United States.

 

The White House gave no details as to when the Trump-Abe meeting might take place, but both leaders are due to attend the G7 meeting of big industrial powers that runs from June 8 to 9 in Canada. Japanese media have also quoted government officials as saying Abe could visit Washington for talks with Trump before the G7 meeting.

 

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Peter Cooney)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-05-29

[Thailand]

With  Moon another likely attendee Trump will be concerned about having to share the Noble Prize.

 

I would love to see Kim get it, he has played the game best so far, under the guidance of Xi granted.

[Baerboxer]

Japan must be worried. A unified Korea, or very friendly North & South at least, with no beef against China and perhaps friendly relations with the US which can then scale down it's military?

 

China and Korea, North and South, have no love for Japan and its former Imperial past.

 

Abe must be seeking some guarantees from the known unreliable u-turn expert current POTUS. 

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10 hours ago, Thailand said:

With  Moon another likely attendee Trump will be concerned about having to share the Noble Prize.

 

I would love to see Kim get it, he has played the game best so far, under the guidance of Xi granted.

While I don't think Trump took this path in an effort to get a peace price, if Trump concludes some kind of "successful" peace deal with North Korea, he would deserve it far more that Obama who did nothing for it. While I think a successful deal is not something that will be achieved in the short term because Communists never keep their word, we can only hope that in the years to come there will be something good that comes from this effort. And you want to give a peace prize to a guy that kills his own brother and uncle and has thousands in concentration camps?  Great thinking!