President Trump on Thursday said a delegation of North Korean officials may be coming to Washington this week to deliver a letter from Kim Jong Un, signaling that a summit between the two leaders might be happening after all due to recent breakthroughs in diplomatic activity.
Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing for Houston, Trump said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s meetings this week with a North Korean delegation in New York had gone “very well.” He added that the delegation is expected to arrive in Washington on Friday to give him “a letter from Kim Jong Un.”
The seemingly positive developments in talks with North Korea come just days after Trump canceled a summit with Kim that had been scheduled to take place in Singapore on June 12.
Along with Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Trump has since suggested the meeting could still happen if the Kim regime shows signs that it’s committed to complete denuclearization.
Trump is also expected to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of any summit with Kim. That meeting could take place when the two leaders attend the G7 Economic Summit in Quebec early next month.
