President Trump said late Saturday he expects to have another meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in January or February.
Aboard Air Force One traveling back to Washington, D.C., from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the president also said three potential sites for the summit are being discussed.
“I think we’re going to do one fairly — into January, February, I think,” Trump told reporters, according to a pool report. When asked about where the upcoming meeting would be, he responded, “We have actually talked about three sites. We haven’t determined the sites.”
Trump was also asked whether he would ever host Kim in the U.S., to which he said, “At some point, yeah.”
If a summit were to take place early next year, it would be the first between Trump and Kim since their historic meeting in Singapore in June, during which they signed a declaration to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. More than five months later, little headway has been made in that effort.
Trump made the comments after attending the G-20 summit with fellow world leaders in Argentina. Earlier in the evening, Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a dinner summit in which they reached an agreement on trade that effectively puts on hold a trade stand-off between the U.S. and China.
The White House announced that Trump agreed to hold off on raising tariffs imposed on Chinese imports, and China agreed to purchase an as-yet-unspecified “very substantial” amount of U.S. products to reduce the trade deficit. With those concessions made, the two sides will allow 90 days for broader negotiations over Chinese trade practices before the U.S. resumes ramping up retaliatory measures.
During his flight home, Trump also spoke about trade with North American allies. Trump said the end of the quarter-century old North America Free Trade Agreement is imminent and that its end would trigger a six-month withdrawal process and give Congress time to debate a revamped deal.
“I’ll be terminating it within a relatively short period of time. We get rid of NAFTA. It’s been a disaster for the United States,” Trump told reporters. “That’ll be terminated so Congress will have a choice of the USMCA or pre-NAFTA, which worked very well.”
Trump signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade Friday morning at the G-20 summit alongside Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. If approved by Congress, USMCA would replace NAFTA.
There are a number of House and Senate Democrats that are adamantly against the deal, along with some Republicans. With a Democratic majority in the House next Congress, it remains unclear whether or not it will get the stamp of approval.
