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The location for the Trump-Kim summit in June is set – why Singapore?

By AirTalk Staff
Published May 10, 2018
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MD - MAY 10: U.S. President Donald Trump walks with the three Americans just released from North Korea, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Tony Kim at Joint Base Andrews on May 9, 2018 in Maryland. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to North Korea and returned with the three men who had been detained for up to two years. The three U.S. citizens have been released as a goodwill gesture ahead of a planned summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un.(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump walks with the three Americans just released from North Korea as a goodwill gesture ahead of a planned summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un.
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The location for the Trump-Kim summit in June is set – why Singapore?

Big news on North Korea today. President Trump announced he’ll meet with North Korea’s leader in Singapore on June 12th.

Also, the three Korean-Americans held in North Korea are back in the US. We’ll talk about their Southern CA connections, and look ahead to the Trump/Kim talks and the strategic advantages of setting the talks in Singapore.

Guests:

David Sanger, national security correspondent for the New York Times; author of the forthcoming “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age” (June 2018, Crown); he tweets

Jean Lee, director of the Korea program at the Woodrow Wilson Center; in 2012 she opened and was the Bureau Chief of the Associated Press bureau in Pyongyang; she tweets