Trump says he expects second N.Korea summit ‘quite soon’

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UNITED NATIONS, United States, Sept 24, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – US President
Donald Trump said Monday he expected to meet again soon with North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un, saying he saw “tremendous progress” in easing tensions.

“It looks like we’ll have a second summit quite soon,” Trump told
reporters at the United Nations.

“As you know Kim Jong Un wrote a letter — a beautiful letter — asking
for a second meeting and we will be doing that,” added Trump, who met with
Kim in Singapore in June.

He said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — whose last planned visit to
Pyongyang was abruptly scuttled by the White House — would arrange the
summit “in the immediate future.”

Trump’s remarks come one year after he stunned the United Nations General
Assembly with a blistering attack on North Korea in his speech, threatening
to “totally destroy” the communist state and mocking the projectile-building
Kim as “rocket man.”

But Trump has since billed his diplomacy with North Korea as a key
diplomatic success, saying that risks of a conflict have receded.

“Tremendous progress on North Korea,” Trump told reporters at the UN
headquarters in New York.

“That was a very dangerous time. This is one year later, a much different
time.”