The meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un represents a ‘licker of hope’, a Church of Scotland minister has said.

The Rev Sang Cha, 41, whose mother led North Korea with her family when she was three, said it would be a ‘pure gift’ to see North and South Korea reunify in his lifetime.

The minister of St Mungo’s Parish Church in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, said there has been ‘too much sufering on both sides’ for long enough.

Mr Cha said: “This meeting represents a licker of hope in the right direction – a small, humble spark.

“But do we not still sing ‘It only takes a spark to get a ire going’.”