However,Trump’s summit with Kim in Vietnam earlier this year collapsed without an agreement for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. president to meet with the leader of the isolated nation last year in Singapore, where they signed a broad agreement to bring the North toward denuclearization. Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton, has said they violated U.N.
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While North Korea has not recently tested a long-range missile that could reach the U.S., it last month a fired off a series of short-range missiles. The meeting would come at a time of escalating tensions. When Moon replied he had, Trump said “(Let’s) try doing it” and raised his thumb, according to the Blue House. South Korea’s presidential Blue House said in a tweet that Trump asked South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the G20 meetings whether he’d seen Trump’s Twitter message to Kim. The President is scheduled to fly to South Korea later Saturday after he concludes meetings at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan. North Korea’s state media made no mention Saturday of a possible meeting between Trump and Kim, either.
White House officials haven’t confirmed yet whether or not Kim has agreed to meet. It was before the breakfast that he wrote his invitation to Kim, stating, “If Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!” in a Tweet. Trump told reporters of his visit during a breakfast with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan that he would be visiting the heavily fortified area between the two Koreas. Presidential visits to the DMZ are usually treated as confidential for security reasons.
North Korea responded by calling the offer a “very interesting suggestion.” The president has long tried to obtain a nuclear accord with the North Korean dictator. OSAKA, Japan (AP) - President Donald Trump made an offer Saturday via Twitter to North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to meet him at the demilitarized border between North and South Korea.
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