The summit between Donald Trump and Korean leader Kim Jong-un, expected in Singapore on 12 June, has officially skipped. The news had been in the air for a few days, with the return of some tensions between the two leaders and despite the nuclear disarmament announced by Pyongyang and the recent release of three American prisoners. Trump has written to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to announce the cancellation of the summit. “We appreciate his time, patience and effort in the recent summit negotiations, scheduled for June 12th. We have been informed that the meeting has been requested by North Korea, but this is irrelevant to us. Sadly, based on the open hostility shown in the latest statements, I believe it is inappropriate at this time to hold the meeting,” Trump said, thus emphasizing that “the Singapore summit will not be held”.
“The world and North Korea in particular have missed a great opportunity for lasting peace. This missed opportunity is a truly sad moment for history”: Donald Trump writes in his letter to Kim Jong-un, still hoping one day to meet the North Korean leader. “I feel that a good dialogue has been built between me and her and in the end it is the dialogue that counts. And I can't wait to meet her one day”, says the president of the United States of America, returning to thank Kim for the recent release of prisoners of US nationality. North Korea had just announced today that it had dismantled its nuclear test site. The operation represents a fixed point, at least in terms of image, handed over by leader Kim Jong-un to the complex path to denuclearize the peninsula.
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The news of the peace summit in Singapore, now definitively over, was given a few days ago, last May 10, by the American president via Twitter: "We will both try to make it a truly special moment for peace in the world", he had tweeted Trump in the aftermath of the positive mission of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to North Korea, that it seemed to have created the conditions for a thaw between the two countries. The truth could be that, after the emergency phase represented by the nuclear threat from Pyongyang, in this period Donald Trump's attention is rather focused on the Middle East, on the Israeli front but above all on relations with Iran and the other countries of the peninsula arabica.
