--- title: Donald Trump to Meet Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12 description: President Donald Trump revealed the date and location of his upcoming meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/5272664/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-meeting-singapore-june-12/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-10T14:59:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:09:27.955Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Just Revealed Details of His Meeting with Kim Jong Un og:description: "We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!" og:url: https://time.com/5272664/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-meeting-singapore-june-12/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99579b596640293a/69892fe4bc6cfcf3313e5e49/donald-trump-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2570 og:image:height: 1446 og:image:alt: President Trump Makes Announcement On Iran Deal og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Just Revealed Details of His Meeting with Kim Jong Un twitter:description: "We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99579b596640293a/69892fe4bc6cfcf3313e5e49/donald-trump-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'World Peace!' 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North and South Korea Make History, Agree To Denuclearization_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 10, 2018 2:59 PM UTC North and South Korea Make History, Agree To Denuclearization  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 10, 2018 2:59 PM UTC President Donald Trump revealed the date and location of his upcoming meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, announcing Thursday that they will meet in Singapore on June 12. In typical fashion, Trump first revealed the news on Twitter. “The highly anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in Singapore on June 12th,” he tweeted Thursday morning. “We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/994587349718847489) The details of the sit-down came two days after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to North Korea to prepare for the meeting, which Trump noted on Tuesday as he withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal. “The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises, I keep them,” Trump said in his speech at the White House that day. “In fact, at this very moment, Secretary Pompeo is on his way to North Korea in preparation for my upcoming meeting with Kim Jong Un. Plans are being made. Relationships are building.” Some foreign policy experts worry that backing out of the Iran deal will make it harder for the Trump Administration to convince North Korea to enter into a deal with the U.S. But [as TIME reported](http://time.com/5269958/iran-nuclear-deal-donald-trump-north-korea/) earlier this week, Trump and his aides think the decision will show North Korea that the United States won’t accept any deal that would allow Kim to restart a nuclear program. ## Transcript [00:13] Oh. It. Oh. [00:37] I. Oh. [00:49] Yeah yeah. We had [00:53] a historical meeting and leads a very preaches and has [00:57] double the agreement. Dillon not be anymore why [01:01] Ellen it crammed inside a new era of peace has finally [01:05] opened his eyes and do it today I concede that. I itself [01:09] then nucleus that those same people at the same [01:12] blood that they cannot be separated again that we that [01:15] come patches. I. A. [01:43] Yeah. I [01:47] don't think he's flying in and you know it's never got [01:49] like this it's never gotten this far I don't think it's ever [01:52] had this enthusiasm for. Somebody for them wanted to [01:55] make a deal and DI agree the United States has been [01:58] played beautifully like a fiddle. Because he had a [02:01] different kind of leader we're not going to be play. [02:04] Okay we're gonna hopefully make a deal we don't [02:06] that's fine. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5272664/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-meeting-singapore-june-12/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5272664/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-meeting-singapore-june-12/"},"headline":"'World Peace!' 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