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After Minting Coin For North Korea Summit, White House Accused Of Early Celebration

The White House is preparing for a meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un on June 12. Despite Pyongyang's threats to back out, the White House has made a coin commemorating the event.
A man in Seoul, South Korea, walks past a TV news screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump on May 16. The two men are scheduled to meet for a summit on June 12, but North Korea has threatened to cancel the meeting.

Weeks before President Trump and Kim Jong Un are scheduled to meet for a daylong summit, there is growing uncertainty over how the meeting will go — or whether it will even take place.

The meeting was originally scheduled for June 12, but Trump now says.

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