North Korea to close Punggye-ri nuclear test site in May

The US president is expected to meet with Kim Jong Un in the next few weeks, amid widespread scepticism on whether the North will ever fully surrender its nuclear weapons.

It made rare mentions of the denuclearisation discussion, but did not go into detail, instead highlighting the broad themes of peace, prosperity, and Korean unity. Australia says the U.S.is vital to world peace. “And then we talked a great deal about what it might look like, what this complete, verifiable, irreversible mechanism might look like”.

Trump said Saturday night that he expects his historic meeting Kim will take place “over the next three or four weeks”.

Graham, from SC, says President Trump was critical in getting the two sides to talk because he convinced North Korea that “we will take you down if you keep trying to build missiles to hit the American homeland”.

During a phone call with Trump on Saturday, Moon “repeatedly” said the success of the summit was due to the strong support of his USA counterpart, according to the South Korean government.

President Donald Trump walks toward the podium to speak at a rally at Total Sports Park, April 28, 2018, in Washington, Mich.

The following are a summary of Abe’s comments after his telephone talks with Trump.

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has promised to close his main nuclear weapons test site in May and said he will invite South Korean and American media to witness the shutdown.

Seoul today revealed that Kim Jong Un said he would move North Korea’s clocks forward by 30 minutes to unify with the South’s time zone as a conciliatory gesture after Friday’s summit. He repeated that Mr Trump will maintain a “pressure campaign” of harsh sanctions on impoverished North Korea until Mr Kim shutters his nuclear weapons program.

“We have our eyes wide open”, Pompeo said multiple times.

“This isn’t like past administrations”.

“We strongly feel that spring is coming”, Kim said. It was also the first time that the summit was being held in South Korea. “I leave”, Trump said, adding that he couldn’t tell the crowd what would happen “because we don’t really know”.

“I don’t have a crystal ball”, he added. “Only time could tell if we can get that done”.

The previous summits were held during a period of rapprochement and were followed by a decade of tense and cold relations.

In his first television interview in this capacity, which US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, assumed less than a month ago, he said the president sees the is a potential here for a historic agreement: a breakthrough that nobody could have imagined even a few months ago. But it’s not clear how much North Korea is willing to offer at the talks or what it will demand in return.