The much-anticipated meeting between the US President Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is set to take place on June 12 in Singapore. The date and place were made public Thursday by Trump on Twitter.
”The highly anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in Singapore on June 12th. We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!” he tweeted.
Among the issues to be discussed when the two leaders meet are North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, trade sanctions meted by the US against the other half of the Korean peninsula as well as other issues.
The US President over the past few weeks has repeatedly said the meeting could result in great progress for the world or collapse if things went sideways, pending on what concessions the North is willing to make moving forward.
The commander-in-chief of the US armed forces has publicly stated his willingness to walk out of the sit-down if his expectations aren’t met. With talk of him possibly winning a Nobel Peace Prize floating around the media and Trump brushing the suggestion off, makes his gamble to meet the North Korea leader a huge one, a major foreign policy achievement of the Trump administration if he succeeds in denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
Neba Benson,
BaretaNews Foreign Correspondent/Analyst
