Trump, Kim to meet in Singapore

Envisioning “a very special moment for world peace,” President Donald Trump announced Thursday he will meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for highly anticipated summit talks in Singapore on June 12. He set the stage for his announcement by hosting a 3 a.m., made-for-TV welcome home for three Americans held by Kim’s government.

Final details in place, Trump and Kim agreed to the first face-to-face North Korea-U.S. summit since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. It’s the most consequential and perhaps riskiest foreign policy effort so far in Trump’s presidency as North Korea’s nuclear program approaches a treacherous milestone - the capacity to strike the continental U.S. with a thermonuclear warhead.

Trump says the U.S. is aiming for “denuclearization” of the entire Korean peninsula, but he has yet to fill in just what steps that might include and what the timing would be.

He and Kim “will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!” he said later on Twitter.

Susan Walsh / Associated Press President Donald Trump, center left, shakes hands with Kim Dong Chul, with Tony Kim, far left, and Kim Hak Song, far right, the three Americans who were detained in North Korea for more than a year, upon their arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in...