Donald Trump will maintain “maximum pressure” on North Korea when he meets Kim Jong-un for unprecedented talks, the White House said on Friday, as officials claimed the breakthrough marked a victory for US policy.
They offered no further details on when or where the meeting would take place as they scrambled to keep pace with the president’s surprise decision to accept Mr Kim’s invitation a day earlier.
China and South Korea both welcomed the move which could defuse tensions on the Korean peninsula and reduce fears of nuclear war, although analysts warned that Mr Trump was in danger of giving Mr Kim an easy PR victory without securing anything in return....