Trump to Japanese PM: North Korean question 'will be solved'

US President Donald Trump has assured Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the question of North Korea “will be solved,” ahead of a G7 summit that will discuss a series of missile tests carried out by Pyongyang.

“We will be discussing many things including of course North Korea which is very much on our minds,” Trump said on Friday in the Italian town of Taormina where he held a meeting with Abe at the start of the two-day G7 summit.

“It’s a big problem, it’s a world problem,” the US president said.

β€œIt will be solved, you can bet on that,” he added, without offering further details.

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a bilateral meeting at the Villa Diodoro on the sidelines of the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the G7, the group of most industrialized economies, plus the European Union, on May 26, 2017 in Taormina, Sicily. (Photo by AFP)

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