Inter-Korean Summit Preparatory Committee ｜2018.4.20

American President Donald Trump, speaking on his upcoming summit with North Korea in a April 18 joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said the U.S. is “looking forward” to the talks and will be “doing everything possible to make it a worldwide success.”

The U.S. leader said that in the coming weeks, he will discuss with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and expressed hope that the people on the peninsula can live together in peace.

Below is the full transcript of President Trump’s comments:

As you know, I will be meeting with Kim Jong-un in the coming weeks to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Hopefully, that meeting will be a great success. And we're looking forward to it. It would be a tremendous thing for North Korea and a tremendous thing for the world. So we will be doing everything possible to make it a worldwide success, not just for the United States or South Korea or North Korea or Japan, but for the entire world. We hope to see the day when the whole Korean Peninsula can live together in safety, prosperity, and peace. This is the destiny of the Korean people who deserve and have gone through so much over the years. We hope it all works out, and we'll be trying very hard.