NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump announced on Thursday [5-10-18] that his meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, will be held on June 12 in Singapore. The announcement came in a tweet just hours after Mr. Trump met the three recently freed American hostages at Joint Base Andrews, where they arrived in the middle of the night after their release by North Korea. The summit will be the first face-to-face meeting between a sitting American president and the North Korean leader. Releasing the hostages removed a significant obstacle for Mr. Trump as he heads into the peace talks. A senior United States official said their release was an American condition to the talks. The president praised Mr. Kim and said he was ‘nice in letting them go before the meeting.’ Last year Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim threatened nuclear war against each other’s countries. Mr. Trump hopes to convince Mr. Kim to abandon his nuclear weapons and the missiles that can carry them. When Mr. Trump greeted the hostages in the early morning hours, he told reporters that his proudest achievement will be ‘when we denuclearize that entire peninsula.'”
-Eileen Sullivan, “U.S.-North Korea Summit Set for June 12 in Singapore, Trump Says,” The New York Times online, May 10, 2018