After a whole lot of drama and back and forth, President Trump has made it official (again). The meeting with Kim Jong-un is back ON. This news comes after a North Korean official’s Oval Office meeting with Trump.
President Trump talks to media following White House meeting with Kim Yong Chol: "We'll be meeting on June 12 in Singapore." #NorthKorea pic.twitter.com/wHOmv6PwRj
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After the first Oval Office meeting with a top North Korean official since 2000, President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday that a June 12 summit with Kim Jong Un was back on in Singapore, though there was no indication that any agreements would be signed in that meeting.
“The process will begin on June 12 in Singapore,” the President told reporters, who met with Kim Yong Chol, the former head of North Korea’s intelligence service for more than an hour.
“We talked about almost everything, we talked about a lot,” the President told reporters, though he did not reveal what was in a letter from Kim Jong Un, which was delivered to Mr. Trump.
“It was a very nice letter,” the President said. “It was a very interesting letter,” though Mr. Trump later acknowledged that he had not opened or read the communication from Kim Jong Un.
However, President Trump made it clear. There’s no guarantee an agreement will be reached.
“The big deal will be on June 12, again, it’s a process,” Trump said. “We’re not going to go sign something on June 12.”
“I think we would be making a big mistake if we didn’t have it,” President Trump says of the summit with Kim Jong Un that is now back on https://t.co/mjkXtPgnnB
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 1, 2018
Reporter: “Do you believe Kim is committed to denuclearization?”
Trump: “Yeah, I do think so” https://t.co/KLHAw9myKp
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 1, 2018
President Trump says the letter from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “a very interesting letter” https://t.co/bybhmqE0Pv
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 1, 2018
President Trump: We had a "two-hour conversation” with North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol at the White House https://t.co/FXXc1Wj9Jp
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 1, 2018
“I didn’t like it,” Trump says of Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov meeting with Kim Jong Un in North Korea https://t.co/xwtmcrUmrm
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 1, 2018
Trump says he hasn’t opened the letter from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un: “I may be in for a big surprise, folks” https://t.co/i1LUaxQjzo
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 1, 2018
So there you go. The meeting is a go. Unless of course there’s a big, crappy surprise in the unopened letter.
We’ll know soon enough….maybe.