Trump heads for Kim summit touting N.Korea denuclearisation benefits

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The two sides might be able to agree to a formal end of the Korean War, which the North has long called for as a major step towards normalising ties.

Trump heads for Kim summit touting N.Korea denuclearisation benefits By - February 26, 2019 6:35 AM US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One to a 2nd summit meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. HANOI/WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump headed for Vietnam on Monday for a second summit with Kim Jong-un, having stressed the benefits to Pyongyang if the North Korean leader gives up his nuclear weapons, but saying there was no rush.

Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is due to testify in a public hearing before a US congressional committee on Wednesday and the panel’s chairman said Trump’s business practices would be a focus of the testimony. A South Korean presidential spokesman told reporters in Seoul the two sides might be able to agree to a formal end of the Korean War, which the North has long called for as a major step towards normalising ties.

 

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