Any agreement with North Korea will be 'spur of the moment': Trump
JUNE 9, 2018 / 10:58 AM / UPDATED 20 HOURS AGO
Roberta Rampton
LA MALBAIE, Quebec (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday any agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at next week’s summit would be “spur of the moment,” underscoring the uncertain outcome of what he called a “mission of peace.”
“I have a clear objective, but I have to say - it’s going to be something that will always be spur of the moment,” Trump told reporters at a news conference at the G7 summit in Quebec. “You don’t know. This has not been done before at this level.”
The main issue for the June 12 summit in Singapore, which he departed for before the end of the G7 meeting, is the U.S. demand for North Korea to abandon a nuclear weapons program that now threatens the United States.
Trump said it would probably take time to reach an agreement with Kim on denuclearization, but at a minimum he believed the summit could produce a “relationship” between the United States and North Korea, which do not have diplomatic ties.
At a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday, Trump said he might extend an invitation to Kim to visit Washington. Pyongyang has rejected giving up its arsenal unilaterally and defends its nuclear and missile programs as a deterrent against what it sees as U.S. aggression.
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