US President Donald Trump (L) welcomes the arrival of three Americans released from DPRK at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on May 10, 2018. Hours later, President Trump says that he will meet with DPRK leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore. (Photo:Yonhap via AFP).
"The highly anticipated meeting between Kim Jong-un and myself will take place in Singapore on June 12th. We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!" Trump said on Twitter.
The two leaders are expected to discuss DPRK's nuclear weapons development and testing program, which has deepened long-seated tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.Trump's announcement came just hours after three Americans who had been held prisoner in DPRK arrived at a US military base outside Washington, having been released by Kim.
Trump said on their arrival that he believed Kim wanted to bring DPRK "into the real world" and had high hopes for their planned meeting, which would be the first between a serving US president and a DPRK leader.
"I think we have a very good chance of doing something very meaningful," Trump said. "My proudest achievement will be - this is part of it - when we denuclearize that entire peninsula."
