Donald Trump Live Speech on Kim Jong-un and North Korea Summit - Press release

Pablo Piovano FXStreet

US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un will give a press conference after the historical meeting in Singapore, where both leaders committed to a complete denuclearization.

In addition, Trump and Kim Jong-un kept the pledge to recover POW/MIAs.

Further out, President Trump said the meeting was ‘honest, direct and productive’.

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