Kim Jong-un Asks Donald Trump For Another Meeting in a Friendly Letter
US President Donald Trump has received a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un asking for a second meeting, and the White House is already looking at scheduling one, White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders says.
The two leaders have been discussing North Korea’s nuclear programme since their unprecedented June 12 summit which has been criticised for being short on concrete details about how and whether Mr Kim is willing to give up on a nuclear weapons programme that threatens the United States. Mr Trump told reporters on Friday a personal letter from Mr Kim was on the way.
“It was a very warm, very positive letter. The primary purpose of the letter was to request and look to schedule another meeting with the President, which we are open to and are already in the process of co-ordinating that,” Ms Sanders said in a briefing.
Ms Sanders told reporters the letter exhibited, “a continued commitment to focus on denuclearisation of the peninsula”.
She said a military parade in Pyongyang on Sunday was “a sign of good faith” because it did not feature any long-range nuclear missiles.
Mr Trump also praised Mr Kim for the lower-key parade.
“This is a big and very positive statement from North Korea,” the President tweeted on Sunday about the parade.
“Thank you To Chairman Kim. We will both prove everyone wrong!
“There is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other! Much better than be- fore I took office.”
Mr Trump recently called off a scheduled visit to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, citing lack of progress by North Korea in dismantling its nuclear arsenal.