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| Trump says he will meet Kim in Singapore on June 12 | Trump says he will meet Kim in Singapore on June 12 |
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| The US president and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un will finally sit down for a summit on June 12 in Singapore, Donald Trump has stated. The date and venue for the meeting has long been the subject of speculation. | The US president and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un will finally sit down for a summit on June 12 in Singapore, Donald Trump has stated. The date and venue for the meeting has long been the subject of speculation. |
| “We will both try to make it a very special moment for world peace,” Trump stated. | “We will both try to make it a very special moment for world peace,” Trump stated. |
| Speculation had been rife that the meeting, expected to focus the Kim Jong Un’s missile program, could be hosted in a number of nations like Mongolia or even the demilitarized zone on the Korean peninsula. | |
| Trump’s statement comes just a day after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo secured the return of three American prisoners to home soil in a whirlwind 13 hour visit to North Korea’s Pyongyang. | |
| Should the June gathering go ahead, it will mark a dramatic turnaround in political relations between North Korea and the US, two nations which officially have not had ties since the 1950s. | Should the June gathering go ahead, it will mark a dramatic turnaround in political relations between North Korea and the US, two nations which officially have not had ties since the 1950s. |
| Relations appeared to reach an all-time low last year when both leaders very publicly threatened to launch attacks on one another’s nations. | |