The time and place of the summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly been set, with the whole world watching to see if the U.S. president can successfully reach an agreement with Pyongyang about denuclearization.
But Trump, who is working with a foundation set by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, apparently wants to keep Kim on his toes ahead of the meeting, Axios reports. "No one knows what I'm going to do," one person familiar with Trump paraphrased him as saying. "They are over there trying right now to analyze every statement I'm putting out to get a sense of what's going to happen when I walk into the room. But the fact of the matter is nobody knows."
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