US, North Korea in talks to arrange a third nuclear summit
The United States and North Korea are holding “behind-the-scenes talks” on the possibility of a third summit, President Moon Jae-in (of South Korea) said in remarks released Wednesday.
Moon’s comments, made Tuesday in a joint written interview with seven news agencies, came ahead of a two-day visit by President Donald Trump to Seoul beginning Saturday.
Trump will meet with Moon on Sunday to discuss stalled efforts to persuade the North to abandon its nuclear weapons. Trump plans to travel to South Korea this weekend following an appearance at the Group of 20 meeting of rich and developing nations in Japan.
He also is widely expected to try to travel to the heavily fortified border that divides the peninsula, but U.S. officials have dismissed speculation that a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may also be in the works.
The president said Kim wrote to him on his birthday and he responded. “He wrote me a beautiful letter on my birthday … I thought it was very nice. We get along very well,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. When asked if there was a mention of a meeting, Trump said: “Maybe there was ...”
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