GYEONGJU, South Korea, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in South Korea Wednesday, where he said he wasn't able to "work out timing" for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump made the remark during a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the city of Gyeongju, where the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is being held, after earlier saying he "would love" to meet Kim during his trip.
"I know Kim Jong Un very well. We get along very well," Trump said. "We really weren't able to work out timing."
Trump met Kim three times during his first term -- in Singapore in 2018, in Hanoi in 2019 and briefly at the Demilitarized Zone later that year. Speculation had swirled that the two could meet again this week in the DMZ truce village of Panmunjom to restart talks over the North's nuclear weapons program.
"I know you are officially at war, but we will see what we can do to get that all straightened out," Trump said to Lee Wednesday. The 1950-53 Korean War ended in a ceasefire but not a peace treaty.
