“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,” Trump said in his address. His relationship with Kim, he noted, “is a good one.”Trump met Kim on June 12 in Singapore in the first summit between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader. Trump has been eager to hold a second summit in spite of a lack of concrete progress in persuading North Korea to give up a nuclear weapons program that threatens the United States. Also Read- Trump, Kim to hold second summit in late FebruaryCommunist-ruled Vietnam, which has good relations with both the United States and North Korea, had been widely touted as the most likely venue for the meeting. North Korea has complained that Washington has done little to reciprocate its freezing of nuclear and missile testing and dismantling of some nuclear facilities.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 06, 2019 03:45 UTC