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Where Will the Trump-Kim Summit Take Place?

Where Will the Trump-Kim Summit Take Place?
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Indeed, Washington says it is looking for a neutral location for the upcoming summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un.

Where Will the Trump-Kim Summit Take Place?

In this respect, NBC News wrote, cited senior US administration officials as saying that several possible venues had been ruled out, including Pyongyang, Beijing and the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, all for security reasons.

"US officials are instead pushing for a more neutral location, preferably in Europe, with Switzerland among the top choices," NBC wrote.

Earlier, Bloomberg News reported that Sweden was another neutral location currently under consideration.

Meanwhile, Sweden represents US interests in North Korea with the two countries communications occurring via the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang.

President Trump said on Wednesday that he would be meeting with Kim Jong-un within the next few weeks.

Trump said that his CIA director and pick for Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, had traveled to North Korea for preliminary talks with Kim early this month.

He also said that the White House was exploring five locations ahead of the proposed summit, which is on track to take place in late May or early June.

However, Trump added that he wouldn't take part in the meeting unless it is likely to bear fruit.

It will be the first meeting of a sitting US president and a sitting North Korean head of state since the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War.

Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is expected to take center stage during the upcoming US-North Korean summit.

Washington is demanding that Pyongyang stick to its promise of ceasing all ballistic missile and nuclear tests.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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