President Trump said there are no new sanctions at this time
President Trump on Friday said the June 12th summit in Singapore with North Korea is back on, after meeting with top North Korean official Kim Yong Chol for more than an hour in the Oval Office. ” We’ll be meeting on June 12th in Singapore,” the president said Friday, one week after canceling the summit .
Mr. Trump made the announcement, he said, without first opening a letter written to him by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivered to him by Kim Yong Chol, the highest-ranking North Korean official to visit the White House in 18 years. Mr. Trump, speaking to reporters after the meeting, still called it a “very nice” letter.
“That letter was a very nice letter. Oh, would you like to see what was in that letter,” the president teased the press.
But pressed further about the content of the letter, Mr. Trump admitted he hasn’t opened the letter yet, and said he could be in for a “surprise.” The White House later confirmed that the president did read the letter later Friday afternoon.
Mr. Trump called off the summit last week, a move a White House official attributed to North Korea’s “trail of broken promises.
