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Trump says he plans to meet North Korea’s Kim
A potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions between Washington and Pyongyang may play out anytime soon after US President Donald Trump said he prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first U.S.-North Korea summit.
Kim has “committed to denuclearisation” and to suspending nuclear and missile tests, South Korea’s National Security Office head Chung Eui-yong told reporters at the White House on Thursday after briefing Trump on a meeting South Korean officials held with Kim earlier this week.
“A meeting is being planned,” Trump posted on Twitter after speaking to Chung, who said Trump expressed a willingness to sit down with Kim in what would be his biggest foreign policy gamble since taking office in January 2017.
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According to Chung, Trump had agreed to meet by May in response to Kim’s invitation. A senior U.S. official said later it could happen “in a matter of a couple of months, with the exact timing and place still to be determined”.
The move by North Korea to give up its nuclear proliferation comes weeks after the US slammed Pyongyang with its ‘heaviest ever’ sanction according to Trump.
The US treasury department revealed at the time that the sanctions were measures – aimed at disrupting North Korean shipping companies, vessels and heighten pressure on its leader Kim.
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