- President Donald Trump said Thursday that he may need to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un more than once to achieve denuclearization.
- Trump also said he expects to meet with a senior North Korean official at the White House on Friday, who is expected to give the president a letter from Kim.
- The president is tentatively set to meet Kim in Singapore on June 12.
President Donald Trump said on Thursday it may take more than one meeting to seal a denuclearization deal with North Korea and that he would like Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear weapons program as quickly as possible under any agreement.
Trump, in a brief interview with Reuters aboard Air Force One as he flew to Texas for Republican fund-raising events, said he was still hoping to hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore.
He said he will most likely be visited by North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol on Friday at the White House after the official wraps up meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York. The North Korean official is carrying a letter to Trump from Kim Jong Un.
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