Trump is pushing for a new meeting with Kim Jong-un in the fall

The American president's goal is to relaunch diplomacy for the denuclearization of North Korea

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President Donald Trump is urging his collaborators to organize a meeting with Kim Jong-un for the autumn, with the aim of relaunching negotiations on the denuclearization of North Korea, possibly on the sidelines of the Apec summit in China.

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Trump seeks to resume the diplomatic initiative launched in his first mandate for North Korean denuclearization.

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American President Donald Trump is urging his aides to organize a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as early as this fall. The Wall Street Journal writes it, according to what US officials reported: the objective is to relaunch the ambitious diplomatic initiative of his first mandate to convince Kim to abandon his country's nuclear weapons program.

Trump has privately discussed the possibility of in-person talks with the North Korean leader during his next trip to Asia: the meeting could take place in November, on the occasion of the Apec summit in Shenzhen, China.