{"id":44450,"date":"2018-05-29T01:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=44450"},"modified":"2018-05-29T01:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:23:05","slug":"trump-kim-summit-president-moon-could-attend-says-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=44450","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Kim summit: President Moon could attend, says South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"International desk: South Korean officials have said President Moon Jae-in could attend a possible summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n

Any attendance by Mr Moon would be dependent on the progress of pre-summit talks between the US and North Korean leaders, said the Blue House.<\/p>\n

The historic meeting is scheduled to take place on 12 June in Singapore.<\/p>\n

It has been thrown into uncertainty, after Mr Trump said he would no longer be attending.<\/p>\n

But both sides have since been working to get it back on track.<\/p>\n

It would be the first-ever meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting US president.<\/p>\n

The details of the potential US-North Korea meeting remain unclear, but discussions would focus on ways of denuclearising the Korean peninsula and reducing tensions.<\/p>\n

The US and North Korea have differed over the exact details of what “denuclearisation” would mean.<\/p>\n

Last week, Mr Trump said he was pulling out, blaming the North's “open hostility”. It came after a senior North Korean official accused US Vice-President Mike Pence of making “stupid” comments..<\/p>\n

Mr Pence had warned that North Korea “may end like Libya” – where then-leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed by rebels in 2011 after renouncing nuclear weapons eight years earlier.<\/p>\n

But Mr Trump later said the US was still talking to North Korea and the meeting could yet go ahead.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Mr Trump said a team from the US had arrived in North Korea to make arrangements for the summit, which he said would help the North achieveits “brilliant potential”.<\/p>\n

Blue House officials said on Monday that discussions on Mr Moon's potential involvement were at an early stage.<\/p>\n

“We are still waiting to see how they come out, but depending on their outcome, the president could join [Trump and Kim] in Singapore,” the official told news outlet Yonhap.<\/p>\n

Separately, Mr Kim and Mr Moon held a previously unannounced meeting on Saturday, following their groundbreaking meeting in April.<\/p>\n

“Both leaders exchanged opinions… for the successful holding of the North Korea-US summit,” said Mr Moon's office of the talks, which were held in the demilitarised zone, the border area between both countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International desk: South Korean officials have said President Moon Jae-in could attend a possible summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Any attendance by Mr Moon would be dependent on the progress of pre-summit talks between the US and North Korean leaders, said the Blue House. The historic meeting is scheduled to take place on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n