WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, a day after his cancellation of a high-stakes summit with North Korea, said Friday that the meeting with Kim Jong Un could still go ahead. In a letter to Kim, Trump said Thursday he would not go ahead with the summit in Singapore, following what the White House called a “trail of broken promises” by the North. But he said talks could still go ahead “at a later date.”Politically, Trump had invested heavily in the success of the planned summit. “In a contest of who can be the most erratic leader, President Trump beats Kim Jong Un hands-down,” Joel Wit, founder of the respected 38 North website which monitors North Korea, wrote on Twitter. “North Korea will have to propose more detailed plans for denuclearisation if it wants to talk in the future,” said Go Myong-hyun, an analyst at the Asan Institute of Policy Studies.--AFP

Source: New Strait Times May 25, 2018 14:48 UTC