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State of the Union: Trump to meet Kim for second summit

Name: State of the Union: Trump to meet Kim for second summit
Uploaded: 2019-02-06T10:05:39.142Z
Duration: 1 min 3 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: US president announced the meeting in address to Congress

US President Donald Trump plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam later this month, amid a lack of progress in persuading North Korea to give up a nuclear weapons program.

February 6, 2019

Footage by Reuters.

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As part of a bold, new diplomacy we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean peninsula. Our hostages have come home. Nuclear testing has stopped. And there has not been a missile launch in more than 15 months. If I had not been elected president of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea.

Much work remains to be done. But my relationship with Kim Jong Un is a good one. Chairman Kim and I will meet again on February 27th and 28th in Vietnam.