PALM BEACH: US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) he hoped his improbable summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un would go ahead—but warned he was not afraid to walk away if the meeting appears unlikely to be “fruitful.”

The odds of the Trump-Kim talks taking place were boosted by the shock news of secret Easter weekend talks between CIA chief Mike Pompeo and the reclusive thirty-something strongman—the most significant US-North Korea contacts in almost two decades.

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