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DonViejo

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Fri May 25, 2018, 10:20 AM May 2018

Trump sounds optimistic tone about future North Korea talks, suggests June 12 summit could happen... [View all]

Source: The Washington Post



Trump sounds optimistic tone about future North Korea talks, suggests June 12 summit could happen after all

By John Wagner
May 25 at 9:52 AM

A day after aborting a summit with North Korea’s leader, President Trump sounded an optimistic note Friday about future negotiations, saying it is even possible that a meeting could take place on June 12 as originally planned.

“We’ll see what happens. We are talking to them now,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House Friday morning. “They very much want to do it. We’d like to do it.”

“It could even be the 12th,” he added, referring to the date next month that had been set for him to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.

Asked if North Korea is playing games, Trump said: “Everybody plays games. You know that better than anybody.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sounds-note-of-optimism-on-north-korea-claims-democrats-rooting-against-him/2018/05/25/e3c1767a-6001-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html

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