Trump will return to Washington after meeting with the Chinese president
North American President Donald Trump clarified this Wednesday that he will not meet with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un, during his current visit to the Korean peninsula, justifying it due to scheduling incompatibilities.
“I know Kim Jong-un very well. We get along very well. It really won’t be possible to meet this time. The president [chinês] Xi [Jinping] arrives tomorrow [quinta-feira] and this is very important for the world, for all of us”, said Trump during a lunch with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae-myung, in the city of Gyeongjiyu.
The North American head of state added that he wants to be with the leader of North Korea and had that objective in this tour, but “there are other commitments”, although his desire is to “work hard with Kim Jong-un and the whole world to resolve things”.
Trump will return to Washington, after the meeting with the Chinese president, coinciding with the summit of leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC),
The current South Korean head of state, in office since June, has been more favorable to dialogue with his northern neighbor than his predecessor and praised Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts.
In his first term, the president of the United States of America met three times with Pyongyang’s highest representative, between 2018 and 2019, and they both held a symbolic handshake in the demilitarized zone of the Korean peninsula, although without any practical results.
