Donald Trump hopes for ‘world peace’ as he announces he will meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June
But the swiftness in the development of events concerning North Korea has analysts anticipating potentially historic outcomes
US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Thursday morning that his “highly anticipated” meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would take place in Singapore on June 12, saying that they will try to make the summit “a very special moment for World Peace”.
Trump tweeted his announcement about seven hours after he welcomed three Americans who had been held in North Korea when they returned to the US at Joint Base Andrews, a military base in Maryland, early Thursday morning.
The US president said he hoped to reach a deal with Kim on North Korea’s denuclearisation that could exceed people’s expectations.
“We will see if we can do something that people did not think was going to happen for many, many years,” Trump said during his remarks at the arrival of the released Americans, Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk and Kim Hak-song.
Trump – who will be the first sitting president to meet a North Korean leader – said that he favoured holding the meeting at the demilitarised zone separating the Koreas, but that most of his advisers argued for holding it at Singapore.
