Trump Says U.S.-North Korea Summit Is Back On For June 12 In Singapore

US President Donald Trump speaks following a meeting from a North Korean delegation on the South Lawn of the White House on June 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. - US President Donald Trump said Friday his summit with Nort... US President Donald Trump speaks following a meeting from a North Korean delegation on the South Lawn of the White House on June 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. - US President Donald Trump said Friday his summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is back on for next month, after extraordinary Oval Office talks with a top envoy from Pyongyang. Trump emerged after a more than hour-long Oval Office meeting with Kim Yong Chol -- a general facing US sanctions who is Kim's right-hand man -- saying that the summit will go ahead in Singapore on June 12 as originally planned. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump came out of his Friday meeting with Kim Jong Un’s top deputy Kim Yong Chol and announced that the U.S.-North Korea summit is back on for June 12 in Singapore.

Kim, making the visit to hand deliver a letter from Kim Jong Un, spoke with Trump for over an hour and a half in the Oval Office.

When Trump came out, he fielded questions from a gaggle of reporters, including if North Korea’s total denuclearization was still on the table. “I think they want to do that, I know they want to do that,” he said, adding that a process like this would likely take more than one meeting.

In regards to his abrupt cancellation of the summit last week, Trump said “we’re over that, we’re totally over that.”

He confirmed that he and Kim did not discuss human rights. He also added that he had not yet read the letter Kim had been dispatched to deliver, saying “I could be in for a big surprise, folks.”

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  1. Perfect date for some Mueller indictments.

  2. Winston Churchill once said of John Foster Dulles: "He’s the only bull I know who carries his own china closet with him."

    History repeats itself.

  3. Oh, these kids. On-again, off-again. Perhaps having a baby will bring them together.

  4. And the check is in the mail…

  5. This should be fun. I understand Kimie is willing to denuclearize, so long as the US does the same.

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