U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that a time and place has been set for his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump on North Korea meeting: "We now have a date. And we have a location. We'll be announcing it soon." pic.twitter.com/KmIGUp1eC4
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 4, 2018
While speaking to reporters on the White House South Lawn, Trump confirmed that “we now have a date and we have a location.”
“We’ll be announcing it soon,” the president said.
Trump also stated that progress had been made in regards to the release of three Americans currently detained in North Korea.
“A lot of things have already happened with respect to the hostages,” the president added.
South Korean and U.S. media outlets reported this week that the U.S. detainees had been removed from labor camps in early April and sent to a hotel outside of Pyongyang.
While the summit’s location has yet to be revealed, Trump took to Twitter on Monday to question whether the meeting should be held at the truce village of Panmunjom, the site of last month’s historic face-to-face between Kim and South Korean leader Moon Jae-in.
“Numerous countries are being considered for the MEETING, but would Peace House/Freedom House, on the Border of North & South Korea, be a more Representative, Important and Lasting site than a third party country? Just asking!” the president tweeted.
Numerous countries are being considered for the MEETING, but would Peace House/Freedom House, on the Border of North & South Korea, be a more Representative, Important and Lasting site than a third party country? Just asking!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018
The summit will be the first ever between a sitting U.S. president and the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The Trump administration’s goal, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is “the permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling of North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction program.”
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