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Eugene

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Wed Feb 6, 2019, 12:49 AM Feb 2019

Trump confirms second summit with Kim Jong-un will be in Vietnam within weeks

Source: The Guardian

Trump confirms second summit with Kim Jong-un will be in Vietnam within weeks

The meeting between leaders of US and North Korea is expected to take place in either Danang or Hanoi on 27-28 February

Julian Borger in Washington
Wed 6 Feb 2019 03.11 GMT

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are to hold their second summit in Vietnam at the end of February, the US president has confirmed.

In his state of the union speech to Congress, Trump repeated an earlier claim to averted a major with his Korean diplomacy.

“If I had not been elected president of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea,” he declared.

Since his first meeting with Kim, Trump said: “Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped, and there has not been a missile launch in more than 15 months.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/06/trump-second-summit-kim-jong-un-north-korea-vietnam-february
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Trump confirms second summit with Kim Jong-un will be in Vietnam within weeks (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2019 OP
"Thank you, Kim, may I have another?" LastLiberal in PalmSprings Feb 2019 #1
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