SEOUL: South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said Saturday that US President Donald Trump thinks a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would be “good.”
Washington has for decades led efforts to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear program, but summits, sanctions and diplomatic pressure have had little impact.
In recent months, the Trump administration has pushed to revive high-level talks with Pyongyang, eyeing a possible summit with Kim Jong Un this year, potentially during Trump’s April visit to Beijing.
Seoul’s Kim, who met Trump in Washington, said the US president told him: “Meeting (Kim Jong Un) would be good. It’s really good to meet. But it could happen when we go to China this time, or it might not, or it could even be later, couldn’t it?“
Kim told reporters in the United States that he and Trump agreed that if a meeting with Kim Jong Un “happens soon, or around the time of the China visit, that would in itself be meaningful.”
