The summit is set.
President Trump tweeted Thursday that his "highly anticipated meeting" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take place in Singapore on June 12.
"The highly anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in Singapore on June 12th. We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!" Trump tweeted.
Fox News had reported Wednesday that Singapore likely would be the location for the planned historic meeting.
It would be the first-ever summit between a U.S. president and a North Korean leader.
The details were announced after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returned overnight from Pyongyang with three freed American prisoners who had been held captive in North Korea.
Pompeo helped secure their release, while ironing out details of the summit.
Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying they were “pleased” to host the summit, and, “We hope this meeting will advance prospects for peace in the Korean Peninsula.”
A Trump-Kim meeting seemed a remote possibility just a few months ago, when the two leaders were trading threats and insults over North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and a string of ballistic missile tests. But momentum for diplomacy has built this year; North and South Korea have moved to ease tensions, including with their own leaders holding a summit late last month.
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