American president Donald Trump has started countdown to meet Kim Jong Un of North Korea at their second summit in Hanoi to further discuss on “lasting peace on Korean Peninsula”.
“It will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27 & 28,” he tweeted. “I look forward to seeing Chairman Kim & advancing the cause of peace.”
Trump also tweeted, since North Korea is distancing from its nuclear missile programs, he has hope Korea will grow as an economic power.
“North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse,” he wrote. “He may surprise some but he won’t surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket – an Economic one!”
In a statement, State Department confirmed the meeting’s progress stating that the US and Korea “discussed advancing President Trump and Chairman Kim’s Singapore summit commitments of complete denuclearization, transforming U.S. – D.P.R.K. relations, and building a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.”
