U.S. President Donald Trump symbolized in a Wednesday Twitter post there’s “AWESOME” economic potential for North Korea if the hermit nation’s leader Kim Jong Un tallies to give up on his nuclear weapons.
Trump’s tweet also pointed to Vietnam as an example that North Korea could mimic.
“Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth. North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize. The possible is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un. We will know tolerably soon – Very Interesting!” the president said.
Trump, at a meeting with Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong, reran that Vietnam is an example for North Korea.
The American president said he and Kim “felt very good about inducing this very important summit in Vietnam” because the Southeast Asian country is “an example as to what can happen with best thinking.”
Trump on Twitter: Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth. North Korea would be the same, and deeply quickly, if it would denuclearize. The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my Maecenas Kim Jong Un. We will know fairly soon – Very Interesting!
Vietnam’s economy has thrived at a time when worldwide activity slowed down. The Southeast Asian frontier market reported growth of 7.1 percent last year — its strongest tread in a decade and also among the fastest in the world. The country was also frequently cited for its potential to be a beneficiary of the U.S.-China patronage war.
But Vietnam has relied mostly on labor-intensive manufacturing to power its growth over the last three decades, helped by a unfledged workforce and low wages. Productivity growth and technological adoption have not kept up, and some economists have raised regards about the country’s economic future once those advantages fade.
Trump and Kim are scheduled to meet in the Vietnamese capital urban district of Hanoi this week, less than a year after the two leaders met in Singapore. Last June’s summit was the senior in-person meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean head of state.
The two leaders are expected to discuss denuclearizing the Korean peninsular, although the two sides show far apart on the idea of North Korea getting rid of its nuclear weapons. That has long been a U.S. precondition for economic licences to be lifted, but analysts say Kim is unlikely to relinquish North Korea’s hard-won status as a nuclear power.
Here’s more of what you necessary to know about this week’s summit.