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Trump ’Will Meet Kim Soon, Will Leave Summit If Not ’Fruitful’’

Trump ’Will Meet Kim Soon, Will Leave Summit If Not ’Fruitful’’
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US President Donald Trump pledged to meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, "in the coming weeks" but warned that he was prepared to walk away if the talks were not "fruitful".

Trump ’Will Meet Kim Soon, Will Leave Summit If Not ’Fruitful’’

"As you know, I will be meeting with Kim Jong-un in the coming weeks to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," the US president told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

"Hopefully that meeting will be a great success and we're looking forward to it," Trump added.

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump confirmed that Mike Pompeo, the CIA director, had travelled to North Korea to meet Kim, paving the way for him to hold a historic summit that has eluded his predecessors.

The mission, which came shortly after Pompeo was nominated as secretary of state, was the highest level meeting between the two countries since 2000, when Madeleine Albright-met Kim Jong-il, Kim's father, in Pyongyang. It also marked the first time the previously reclusive Kim Jong-un has met a senior western official.

Speaking at a joint press conference with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, the president said: "We've never been in a position like this with that regime, whether it's father, grandfather or son, and I hope to have a very successful meeting. If we don't think it's going to be successful, we won't have it, we won't have it. If I think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we're not going to go."

"If the meeting when I'm there is not fruitful, I will respectfully leave the meeting and we'll continue what we're doing or whatever it is that we'll continue, but something will happen."

Trump also said the US was "fighting very diligently" to win freedom for three Americans detained in North Korea.

He said he believed there was a "good chance of doing it" and that "we're having a good dialogue" with the North Koreans.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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