US President Donald Trump arrives at the Korean Demilitarized Zone for a historic meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong-un
Before departing for DMZ, US President Donald Trump told reporters in Seoul that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will"just shake hands quickly and say hello" at the historic meeting at the Korean border village of Panmunjom.
Trump departed Seoul aboard the Marine One presidential helicopter shortly after South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced that Kim had accepted Trump's invitation to meet at the heavily fortified site at the Korean border village of Panmunjom. Moon praised the two leaders for "being so brave" to hold the meeting and said, "I hope President Trump will go down in history as the president who achieves peace on Korean Peninsula."
That summit produced a vaguely-worded pledge about denuclearisation, but a second meeting in Hanoi in February intended to put flesh on those bones broke up without agreement. "Sure I would, I would. I'd feel very comfortable doing that. I'd have no problem," Trump told reporters.In an unusually fast and public response, within hours of Trump's tweet the North's official KCNA news agency quoted Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui as saying the offer was "a very interesting suggestion" but that no official request had been received.
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