US President Trump and Japan's Abe agree to meet before US-N. Korea summit - Reuters
|According to Reuters, the White House has confirmed that President Trump and Japanese President Shinzo Abe have agreed to meet in person prior to the upcoming US-North Korea summit on June 12th.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed North Korea by phone on Monday and confirmed they would meet before an expected U.S.-North Korea summit, the White House said. A White House statement said that in their call, Trump and Abe “affirmed the shared imperative of achieving the complete and permanent dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and ballistic missile programs.”
The White House gave no details as to when the Trump-Abe meeting might take place, but both leaders are due to attend the G7 meeting of big industrial powers that runs from June 8 to 9 in Canada. Japanese media have also quoted government officials as saying Abe could visit Washington for talks with Trump before the G7 meeting.
- Reuters
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