Trump expects second North Korea summit ‘quite soon’

Trump has been billing his diplomacy with North Korea as a key diplomatic success, saying that risks of a conflict have receded.


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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