Will walk out if Kim meet fails: Trump
■ Don raises hopes of a breakthrough in North Korea talks
Washington, April 19: US President Donald Trump has warned that if his planned talks with North Korean leader Kim Jongun are “not fruitful” he will “walk out”.
Mr Trump said he will be meeting with Kim in the coming weeks to discuss the de- nuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.
At a joint news conference, Mr Trump and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe on Wednesday said maximum pressure must be maintained on North Korea over nuclear disarmament. “If we don’t think it’s going to be successful... We won’t have it. We won’t have it. If I think it’s a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we are not going to go,” Mr Trump said.
“If the meeting, when I’m there is not fruitful, I will respectfully leave the meeting and will continue what we are doing or whatever it is that we’ll continue, but something will happen,” Mr Trump said a day after he told reporters that he is likely to meet Mr Kim in June or before that.
“Hopefully, that meeting will be a great success and we’re looking forward to it,” Mr Trump said, adding that it would be tremendous for the world if the meeting went well.
Mr Trump expressed hope that the Korean Peninsula could live together “in safety, prosperity, and peace” following a series of meetings between North Korea and South Korea.
Palm Beach ( United States), April 19: US President Donald Trump voiced hope Wednesday that North and South Korea, technically still at war, can pave the way to a lasting peace at a series of upcoming summits.
Mr Trump made the comments amid a flurry of diplomatic activity that has fuelled hopes of a major breakthrough in the standoff with Pyongyang.
“We hope to see the day when the whole Korean peninsula can live together in safety, prosperity and peace,” the US president told a joint press conference with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his Mar- aLago retreat in Florida.
“As I’ve said before, there is a bright path available to North Korea when it achieves denuclearisation in a complete and verifiable and irreversible way,” Mr Trump said.
“It will be a great day for them and a great day for the world,” added Mr Trump, who is planning to meet North Korea’s leader Kim Jong- un in the next two months.
Earlier on Wednesday, the US leader confirmed a clandestine meeting had already taken place between his CIA chief and the North’s reclusive leader.
News of the talks between Kim and Mike Pompeo, Trump’s pick to be the next secretary of state, comes with hopes riding high on a pair of upcoming and potentially historic summits.