Trump won’t rush North Korea on denuclearisation but peace deal possible
Two sides might agree to formal end of the 1950-1953 Korean War, whose hostilities still linger in the peninsula
Hanoi — US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un hold a second summit this week with no real expectation of a final deal on ridding the North of nuclear weapons but hope was raised on Monday for an official peace on the peninsula at long last. The two leaders are due to meet in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Wednesday and Thursday, eight months after their historic summit in Singapore, the first between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader. There they pledged to work towards the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, but their vague agreement has produced few results. US Democratic senators and security officials have warned Trump against cutting a deal that would do little to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. Trump, speaking in Washington on the eve of his departure for Vietnam, said he believed he saw eye to eye with Kim and that they had developed “a very, very good relationship”. But he appeared to play down any hope of a major break...
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