‘No rush on North Korea denuclearisation’
US President Donald Trump announced on February 8 that his second meeting with Kim Jong Un would take place in Hanoi on February 27-28
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he expected to see the ultimate denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula while pointing out that he had no pressing schedule for that objective.
Trump said on Tuesday that he was looking forward to meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, next week in Hanoi, Vietnam.
”I think a lot of things will come out of it,” he said.
Trump said he would like to see the ultimate denuclearisation of the North Korea, but at the same time noted that he was “in no particular rush” given that the sanctions remain in effect and Pyongyang has refrained from nuclear and missile testing.
“As long as there’s no testing I’m in no rush, if there’s testing that’s another deal...I hope that very positive things are going to happen,” he said. Trump also said he discussed “probably every aspect” of the second US-North Korea summit with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in during a phone conversation.
According to the Office of President Moon, the two leaders intensively discussed ways to cooperate for the success of the upcoming second US-North Korea summit over the phone for about 35 minutes.
The South Korean president said his country was ready to assume any role, if Trump demands, to offer corresponding measures to facilitate denuclearisation on the peninsula.
Trump announced on February 8 that his second meeting with Kim would take place in Hanoi on February 27-28.
He met Kim for the first time in Singapore in June 2018, reaching several consensuses which have led to the improvement of USNorth Korea relations.
However, differences on such key issues as the road map of denuclearisation, US lifting sanctions and whether to issue a warending declaration still haunt the two sides and hinder negotiations