{"id":155842,"date":"2018-03-09T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155842"},"modified":"2018-03-09T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T02:06:07","slug":"kim-jong-un-trump-meeting-bold-but-poses-great-results-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/09\/kim-jong-un-trump-meeting-bold-but-poses-great-results-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un, Trump meeting bold but poses &#8216;great results&#8217;: DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141452\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20729377_1501782843247825_4265370116163280899_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141452\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20729377_1501782843247825_4265370116163280899_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: In a statement Friday night, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano regarded the upcoming meeting as &quot;bold move&quot; but noted it poses great result towards peaceful negotiation in the region. (Photo: Alan Peter Cayetano\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20729377_1501782843247825_4265370116163280899_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20729377_1501782843247825_4265370116163280899_n-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20729377_1501782843247825_4265370116163280899_n-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: In a statement Friday night, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano regarded the upcoming meeting as &#8220;bold move&#8221; but noted it poses great result towards peaceful negotiation in the region. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alanpetercayetano\/photos\/a.521970207895765.1073741846.368498793242908\/1501782843247825\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alanpetercayetano\/\">Alan Peter Cayetano\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA&#8211; The Philippine government welcomed the acceptance of US President Donald Trump to the invitation of Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong Un for a meeting this May on the issue of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Friday night, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano regarded the upcoming meeting as &#8220;bold move&#8221; but noted it poses great result towards peaceful negotiation in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We join the rest of the international community in praying for a successful outcome of the meeting between the two leaders,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a bold and unprecedented move that we hope would lead to reduced tensions in the Asia-Pacific Region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano said the government is also encouraged by developments related to the inter-Korean dialogue initiative arising from the recent high-level visit of a delegation from the Republic of Korea to Pyongyang last Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Philippines hopes that this would lead to a tangible movement towards addressing the Korean Peninsula issue,&#8221; he said as he reiterated the government&#8217;s &#8220;readiness to play a constructive role&#8221; in contributing to peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The government had been an advocate towards the peaceful resolution on tensions in the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Manila played host to North Korea&#8217;s top diplomat at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum (ARF), the lone security summit where Pyongyang sends its foreign ministers to engage with counterparts from other nations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8211; The Philippine government welcomed the acceptance of US President Donald Trump to the invitation of Democratic People\u2019s Republic of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":141452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,17],"tags":[9869,28640,5923,14834],"class_list":["post-155842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-news-w","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs-secretary-alan-peter-cayetano","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-meeting","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}