“We’re going to see what happens, we’re talking to them now.”
A day after President Trump declared that the historic summit planned between the US and North Korea had been cancelled, Trump appeared to pull off another pivot on Friday when he kept hopes of a meeting alive, saying that the Singapore meeting may still happen as scheduled on June 12, just hours after North Korea said they are very eager to get back to the negotiating table, and that the only reason for Pyongyang’s harsh language was because it was responding to similar language by the US.
“We’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters at the White House on his way to Annapolis adding that “it could even be the 12th. We’re talking to them now. They very much want to do it. We’d like to do it. We’ll see what happens” and then explained his negotiating strategy: “everybody plays games.”
“We’re going to see what happens, we’re talking to them now.”
President Trump says North Korea summit with Kim Jong-un could still be possible on 12 June https://t.co/eMeK1Oyldi pic.twitter.com/BRjgtAnmeT
Trump credited the North’s “very nice statement” for prompting the US to reconsider its cancellation.
Shortly after, Reuters reported that Mattis echoed Trump’s optimismsaying that he had received “possibly good news” on the June 12 summit which “may be on if diplomats can pull it off.
