North Korea's Kim Jong-un 'set on Trump summit'

May 27, 2018 15:44

It is North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's "fixed will" that a summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore should go ahead, state media say.

This followed a surprise meeting on Saturday between Kim and the South's Moon Jae-in, who said the North was "committed to denuclearisation".

Trump had cancelled the 12 June summit, citing the North's "hostility".

But on Saturday he said that the date "hasn't changed" and that things were "moving along very nicely".

The summit would be the culmination of diplomatic efforts that began this year to try to defuse what had threatened to become a military confrontation between the nuclear-armed communist North and the South and its US ally.

The North's KCNA agency released a detailed statement on the meeting and the South Korean president also delivered remarks. It was the leaders' second meeting in as many months.

Moon said he and Kim had "agreed that the June 12 summit should be held successfully" and that the North Korean leader had "again made clear his commitment to a complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula".

But Moon suggested Kim was not certain whether Washington could guarantee the stability of his regime.

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