Trump to speak on phone with President Xi Jinping and Japan’s Abe on North Korea
Trump’s talks with the leaders come ahead of a meeting of G20 leaders in Hamburg, Germany, later in the week.
US President Donald Trump will speak by telephone with the leaders of China and Japan, in talks that are likely to be dominated by North Korea’s nuclear drive and the threats posed by its belligerent leadership.
The Trump administration has been growing increasingly exasperated with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s government, which has staged a barrage of missile tests in recent months.
Trump had been pinning his hopes on China – North Korea’s main diplomatic ally – to bring pressure to bear on Pyongyang, but declared last week that their efforts had failed.
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China’s President Xi Jinping and Trump agreed in their first meeting in April to strengthen coordination in resolving the issue of North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme.