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Meeting with Kim back on track

Says Trump after talks with envoy from Pyongyang

AFP, Washington
US President Donald Trump said yesterday his summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is back on track for next month, after extraordinary Oval Office talks with a top envoy from Pyongyang.
Trump emerged after a more than hour-long Oval Office meeting with Kim Yong Choi - a general facing US sanctions who is Kim's right-hand man - saying that the summit would go ahead in Singapore on June 12 as originally planned.
While admitting that dealing with North Korea was "going to be a process", Trump said he believed that process would ultimately be "successful”.
Trump said the letter from Kim, hand-delivered by Kim Yong Choi, was "very nice" and "very interesting" - but then said he had not opened it yet.
Nevertheless, the US president had warm words for Pyongyang, saying the long discussions had touched on North Korea's denuclearisation and economic development.
Trump indicated that the campaign of "maximum pressure" was at least on hold, vowing no new sanctions while talks are ongoing.
"The relationships are building and that's very positive," he said.
In a move that is sure to worry US allies in Japan and South Korea, Trump
also said he and his guest had discussed US troop numbers on the Korean peninsula.
"We talked about almost everything. We talked about a lot. And we talked about sanctions," he said.
Meanwhile, two Koreas yesterday agreed at a high-level meeting to hold talks this month on military issues and
reunions of families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War, they said in a statement.
The meeting in the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone that separates North and South Korea is the latest in a flurry of diplomatic activity intended to sustain a thaw in relations with the isolated North, reported Reuters.
Military talks between the old rivals will take place on June 14 on the northern side of Panmunjom, and a separate session on sports exchanges on the southern side on June 18, the two sides said.
Talks about reunions of families divided by the war, which ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, would be held on June 22 at the Mount Kumgang resort north of the border.
Yesterday's talks were led by South Korea's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon and Ri Son Gwon, chairman of the North's committee for the peaceful reunification of the country, and were a follow-up to an agreement reached during the first summit between Kim and Moon in April.