US President Donald Trump said Saturday that « things are going very well » after talking with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in about an upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
US President Donald Trump said Saturday that « things are going very well » after talking with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in about an upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
« Just had a long and very good talk with President Moon of South Korea. Things are going very well, time and location of meeting with North Korea is being set, » Trump wrote on Twitter.
« Also spoke to Prime Minister (Shinzo) Abe of Japan to inform him of the ongoing negotiations, » he wrote.
Moon met with Kim in a historic summit, agreeing on Friday to pursue a permanent peace and the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
An armistice brought the fighting on the Korean peninsula to an end in 1953, but 65 years later, a final peace agreement has still not been reached.
A later readout of the Trump-Moon call issued by the White House said the US and South Korea had closely coordinated ahead of Moon’s meeting with Kim.
It added that Trump and Moon « agreed that the unprecedented pressure applied by the United States, the Republic of Korea, and the international community through the global Maximum Pressure Campaign has led to this significant moment.
