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Exclusive: Trump says 'most likely' to meet North Korea's Kim again
Reuters ^ | August 20, 2018 | Steve Holland, Jeff Mason and James Oliphant

Posted on 08/20/2018 5:05:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would “most likely” meet again with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, while defending his efforts to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.

In an interview with Reuters, Trump, who held a landmark summit with Kim on June 12, said he believed North Korea had taken specific steps toward denuclearization, despite widespread doubts about Kim’s willingness to abandon his arsenal.

While insisting that “a lot of good things are happening” with North Korea, Trump complained that China was not helping as much as it had in the past because of its trade dispute with the United States.

Trump, who faced the North Korean challenge as soon as he took office in January 2017, said he had only been working on the North Korean issue for three months whereas his predecessors had been working on it for 30 years.

“I stopped (North Korea’s) nuclear testing. I stopped (North Korea’s) missile testing. Japan is thrilled. What’s going to happen? Who knows? We’re going to see,” he said.

At their summit in Singapore, Kim agreed in broad terms to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula but North Korea has given no indication it is willing to give up its weapons unilaterally as the Trump administration has demanded....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: korea; northkorea; trump

1 posted on 08/20/2018 5:05:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 08/20/2018 5:10:58 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GOAT POTUS TRUMP)
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3 posted on 08/20/2018 5:27:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Trump is trying so hard to save the lives of 10 million communist Koreans but it is totally futile. Kim is BUILDING NUKES TO ATTACK MILLIONS OF AMERICANS! . IF you want to wake up in a total black out and watch you children and grandchildren starve TO DEATH AFTER AN emp— Why DOn’t you go weak~!! We must protect this nation!!


4 posted on 08/20/2018 5:40:00 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government" to get the WALL in "September")
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Turn off your caps lock key, dude. It’s obnoxious.

No offense.


5 posted on 08/20/2018 5:51:32 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why not? Roosevelt and Stalin were big buddies in WWII. The only difference is who the MSM is backing.


6 posted on 08/20/2018 6:03:59 PM PDT by caver
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GTH. Quick.


7 posted on 08/20/2018 6:36:55 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government" to get the WALL in "September")
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I think you meant quickly, not quick.


8 posted on 08/20/2018 6:46:27 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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Your tag forgot to mention 52m socialists cowering


9 posted on 08/21/2018 10:26:57 AM PDT by Jumper
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