“Trump Has No Meeting With Kim Jong Un Scheduled During November Asia Trip”

[Financial News] A U.S. government official has reportedly said that President Donald Trump, who will visit Asia, including the Philippines and China, from the 15th to the 19th, currently has no plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during the trip.
President Trump has publicly expressed his desire to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before the end of the year.
On the 14th, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing foreign media reports, that no meeting with Kim was included in President Trump’s schedule for his current Asia trip. President Trump will attend the ASEAN summit in Manila, the Philippines, from the 15th to the 17th, and the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, from the 17th to the 19th.
A U.S. government official said that, for now, President Trump has no plans to meet Kim Jong Un in any way, whether at the ASEAN summit in Manila, the Philippines, or the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China.
On the 13th (local time), White House communications official Olivia Wales officially announced that President Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin would come together on the 19th in connection with the APEC summit.
Wales explained that President Trump views nuclear proliferation as a serious threat and has said he intends to address the issue of reducing nuclear weapons worldwide at this meeting.
According to senior U.S. government officials, President Trump also plans to put the ongoing Iran war on the meeting’s agenda.
The Ukraine war is expected to be left off the agenda for this meeting. A senior U.S. official who requested anonymity explained that the United States is negotiating separately with Russia and Ukraine, and that it would not be appropriate to discuss an issue in which China is not involved at a U.S.-China-Russia meeting. President Trump’s special envoys recently held private talks with the Russian and Ukrainian sides in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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