President Donald Trump looks on as Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks while dining at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, April 18, 2018.
VOA: Trump, Japan's Abe to Meet Ahead of Possible US-North Korea Summit
WHITE HOUSE — President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plan to hold face-to-face discussions before a planned summit between Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un.
“We agreed to meet before the U.S.-North Korea summit,” Abe told reporters in Tokyo following his Monday telephone call with Trump.
In the call, Trump and Abe also “affirmed the shared imperative of achieving the complete and permanent dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and ballistic missile programs,” according to a White House statement.
Both Trump and Abe are set to attend the Group of Seven economic summit June 8-9 in Canada, but the two may meet at the White House prior to that, according to officials in Washington and Tokyo.
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Update: White House says Trump and Abe agree to meet before expected U.S.- North Korea summit (Reuters)
WNU Editor: This discussions on the upcoming Singapore summit that I am interested in are between President Trump and Chinese President Xi. My sense is that both leaders have been talking a lot on what needs to be done to make this summit a success ... but there has been little if any public announcements .... and there certainly has been no leaks.