Article snippet: President Group of Seven (G7) summit. The annual meeting convenes the leaders of the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy and Canada to discuss and promote solutions for major world issues. Ahead of his meeting with G7 leaders Friday morning, Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss North Korea, among other issues. "It's a big problem, it's a world problem," the president said. "It will be solved at some point. It will be solved, you can bet on that.” Abe, who joined Trump at Mar-a-Lago in February, joked about playing golf. “There is one unfortunate thing I have to confess, this time around we will not be able to play golf together,” said Abe. But in contrast to the collaborative and at times even playful demeanor leaders would assume during the eight years President Barack Obama was in office, Trump's emergence so far on the diplomatic circuit has shown his willingness to use the meetings to confront world leaders and openly express his grievances. Trump's speech at the opening of a new NATO memorial Thursday aimed to publicly call out countries who may not have paid their full share in recent years. It also rattled some diplomatic experts over the president's decision to not explicitly express the U.S. commitment to NATO's Article 5 collective defense treaty. A key issue expected to be on the summit's agenda is Trump's weighing of whether to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord,... Link to the full article to read more