Defending his efforts to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons, US President Donald Trump said he would "most likely" meet again with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Despite doubts that Kim might not abandon his nuclear weapon, Trump had held a summit with Kim on June 12 where significant steps were taken towards denuclearisation of North Korea.
Trump claimed that due to the ongoing trade dispute, China was not helping as much as they used to in the matter. He made the statements in an interview with Reuters.
Trump, who faced the North Korean challenge as soon as he took office in January 2017, said he had only been working on the North Korean issue for three months whereas his predecessors had been working on it for 30 years.
“I stopped (North Korea’s) nuclear testing. I stopped (North Korea’s) missile testing. Japan is thrilled. What’s going to happen? Who knows? We’re going to see,” he said.
At their summit in Singapore, Kim agreed in broad terms to work toward denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula but North Korea has given no indication it is willing to give up its weapons unilaterally as the Trump administration has demanded.
Trump has hailed the Singapore summit as a success and went as far as saying North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat.
