Trump heads to Singapore for North Korea summit

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One prior to departure from Canadian Forces Base Bagotville in Canada, June 9, 2018. (AFP)

US President Donald Trump left the G7 summit before the meeting ended on Saturday as he headed to Singapore ahead of a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The main issue for the June 12 summit in Singapore is the US demand for North Korea to abandon a nuclear weapons program that now threatens the United States.

North Korea has rejected giving up its arsenal unilaterally and defends its nuclear and missile programs as a deterrent against what it sees as US aggression. The United States stations 28,500 troops in South Korea, a legacy of the Korean War.

(Source: Reuters)


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