WASHINGTONPresident Donald Trump welcomed the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev for his first assembly on the White House Wednesday.
“We’ve been working very closely together on different things including trade, they’ve actually made investments here, we make investments there,” mentioned Trump
“Today we are having a very historical meeting,” Mirziyoyev mentioned. “We know that the United States of America since the early days of independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan has always supported independence, sovereignty as well as the territorial integrity of Uzbekistan.”
The two leaders are anticipated to speak about human rights reform and freedom of the press as Trump goals to construct a relationship with the previous Soviet state.
But North Korea dominated the questions from reporters as Trump met with Mirziyoyev within the Oval Office.
“We haven’t seen anything, we haven’t heard anything, we’ll see what happens,” mentioned Trump.
When requested if Kim was bluffing when he threatened to name off the deliberate June 12 summit, he replied, “We’ll see what happens.”
Pyongyang made this announcement after navy drills between the United States and South Korea on Monday.
The State Department says the United States will go ahead with the drills as they proceed plans for the North Korea summit.