Date set for North Korea meeting with Trump

US President Donald Trump has said he will meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Singapore on 12 June.

The president tweeted: “We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!” Mr Trump provided details for the first time about the history-making meeting between a sitting American president and the leader of North Korea over denuclearisation.

He had said he favoured holding the meeting at the Demilitarised Zone, the heavily fortified border separating the Koreas.

But the island nation was favoured by most of his advisers.

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has travelled to Pyongyang twice to meet Mr Kim in recent months, in a precursor to the Trump-kim meeting.

Mr Pompeo returned overnight with three captive Americans during his most recent trip. Mr Trump and Mr Kim will meet in the first North Korea-us summit talks since the end of the 195053 Korean War.