TAORMINA, Italy: US President Donald Trump said Friday the “problem” of an increasingly belligerent North Korea would be “solved”, as he met with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe just before the start of the G7 summit. “It’s a big problem, it’s a world problem,” he said in the Sicilian town of Taormina, adding the issue would be raised in joint meetings with the other six heads of leading industrialized countries. “It will be solved,” he said before going into closed-door talks with Abe, without giving further details. It has carried out two atomic tests since the beginning of last year, insisting it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself against the threat of invasion. Washington says it is willing to enter into talks with North Korea if it halts its nuclear and missile tests, but it has also warned that military intervention was an option, sending fears of conflict spiraling.

Source: Manila Times May 26, 2017 09:22 UTC