President Trump says Kim Jong Un responded to his offer to shake hands at the Korean demilitarized zone — but he isn’t saying if the North Korean leader accepted.
Trump told reporters in Seoul, South Korea, that officials received a response to the tweeted offer.
“We have, yes,” Trump said, regarding whether he heard from Kim.
“It will be very interesting,” Trump said Saturday night local time, divulging no details, but indicating the Sunday trip will happen. Asked if there would be a three-nation summit including South Korea, Trump said, “Well, we’re going to see.”
After trading letters this month, Trump tweeted, “if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!”
After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
June 28, 2019
Trump has sought to build a relationship with the 35-year-old dictator, meeting first in June 2018 in Singapore, and then in February in Vietnam. The second summit collapsed when Trump walked out over Kim demanding sanctions relief before dismantling his country’s nuclear weapon program.
Since the second round of talks collapsed, North Korea has used at times harsh rhetoric. Last month, the state-run Korean Central News Agency called National Security Adviser John Bolton a “defective human product.”
Trump added the brief stop in South Korea in mid-May, and journalists long suspected he would seek to meet Kim at the border.
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