Trump’s Twitter Invitation to Kim Set Off 24-Hour Scramble

President Trump's advisers were caught off guard by a tweet asking the North Korean leader to meet on the border between North and South Korea

President Trump surprised his own advisers when he offered on Twitter while in Japan on Saturday to “say Hello!” to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on the border between North and South Korea, setting into motion a 24-hour scramble to prepare for a possible meeting.

The administration hadn’t begun to plan for a possible meeting until the president tweeted, people familiar with the discussion said, despite public comments by Mr. Trump last week in which he hinted he might be interested in meeting with the North Korean leader during...After meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone that divides the two Koreas, President Trump said official nuclear talks would resume.

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