Korean meeting puts summit back on track
PLANS for an historic summit between the US and North Korea appeared to be back on track last night after Kim Jong-un held a surprise meeting with the South Korean leader.
On Thursday, US president Donald Trump abruptly cancelled next month’s summit – blaming North Korea’s ‘open hostility’ to America.
However, he appeared to be making a U-turn as South Korean president Moon Jae-in held talks with Mr Kim in a border truce village.
A spokesman for Mr Moon said the leaders ‘candidly exchanged views about making the North Korea-US summit successful’.
The summit, planned for June in Singapore, will focus on ways of denuclearising the Korean peninsula. This is the second time in a month that the leaders have met to discuss the peace commitments they reached in their first meeting.
The pair also talked about Mr Kim’s potential meeting with Mr Trump’s next month.
South Korean presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan said Mr Moon will reveal the outcome of his surprise meeting with Mr Kim today.
The Korean leaders met hours after South Korea expressed relief over revived talks for the June summit following a whirlwind 24 hours that saw the US leader cancel the highly-anticipated meeting, before saying that it is potentially back on.
President Trump later tweeted that the summit, if it does happen, will most likely take place on June 12 in Singapore as originally planned.