WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump laboured with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in Tuesday to keep the highly anticipated U.S. summit with North Korea on track after Trump abruptly cast doubt that the June 12 meeting would happen. Yoon said Moon told Trump that the North Korean leader was strongly committed to the meeting and the leaders agreed that any assistance to North Korea would come after complete denuclearization. Trump said if such an agreement is reached, China, Japan and South Korea would invest large sums to “make North Korea great.”In North Korea itself, foreign journalists arrived to watch the dismantling of a nuclear test site this week in a significant concession before the Trump talks. The report on North Korea’s military capabilities was based on an assessment of developments in 2017 and was provided to Congress in April. Ahead of the North Korea meeting, the president has been almost singularly focused on the pageantry of the summit — including the suspenseful rollout of details, senior administration officials said.

Source: thestar May 22, 2018 17:29 UTC