NORTH KOREA/TRUMP A PRESIDENT: “One of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s top lieutenants is expected to hand-deliver a letter to President Donald Trump in the White House on Friday [6-1-18] as administration officials have grown increasingly optimistic about the chances for the first summit between leaders of the two countries. The letter from Mr. Kim was described as fairly basic, according to one foreign government official who was briefed on the contents. It expresses the North Korean leader’s interest in meeting without making any significant concessions or threats. The Kim lieutenant delivering the letter, Gen. Kim Yong Chol, who is under U.S. sanctions for his role in cyberattacks against American companies, is expected to remain in the U.S. until Saturday [6-2-18], the official said. Mr. Trump is scheduled to spend the weekend in Camp David, Md., in long-planned briefings about the summit and its agenda, which U.S. officials have repeatedly insisted will be aimed at the complete, verifiable and nonreversible denuclearization of North Korea. Those demands sparked an outburst last week from Mr. Kim’s top officials, who insisted that the North would never give up its arsenal. The aggressive language, which belittled Vice President Mike Pence and suggested nuclear war, was enough for Mr. Trump to cancel the summit last week.”
-Michael C. Bender and Vivian Salama, “Kim’s Letter to Trump Expresses Interest in Nuclear Summit,” The Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2018 11:05 am