US President Donald Trump says the details of his upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be announced next week — and that a date and place have been settled.
“We’re going to announce it very soon. We’ll be announcing early next week and they very much want the meeting,” Trump tells reporters in the White House.
US President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island in Singapore, June 12, 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP)
“I think most of you know where the location is. I don’t think it’s a great secret,” he adds, touting what he called the “tremendous progress” made with Pyongyang.
Trump held a historic first summit with Kim in Singapore in June to try to persuade the reclusive North Korean strongman to give up the country’s nuclear weapons.
The US president has come under fire at home from critics who say that Kim has not taken enough concrete steps toward denuclearization to be given a second summit.
US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Tuesday that North Korea would resist pressure because its leaders see nuclear weapons capability as “critical to regime survival.”
Trump is pushing back against intelligence leaders, who publicly disagree with his foreign policy positions on North Korea, Iran and Syria.
“I disagree with certain things that they said, I think I’m right,” he says. “Time will prove me right probably.”
— AFP
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