President Trump announced Friday he will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12, a historic summit he hopes will be the first of many as the U.S. pushes the authoritarian regime to decommission its nuclear weapons program.
The president revealed his decision after emerging from a lengthy Oval Office meeting with Kim Yong-chol, one of the most powerful officials inside the Kim regime. The two men, along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, met for over an hour to discuss denuclearization and the preconditions for sanctions relief. The former North Korean intelligence chief also delivered a personal letter from Kim to the president, which Trump read prior to departing for Camp David Friday afternoon, according to an administration official.
