President Trump says Kim Jong Un has accepted his offer to meet him at the Korean demilitarized zone.
“We are going to the DMZ border and I will be meeting with Chairman Kim, I look forward to it very much, I look forward to seeing him,” Trump said at a press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul.
As he mentioned in his surprise tweet making the offer a little more than a day ago, Trump stressed the meeting will be brief. “Just shake hands and say hello,” he said.
Trump also touted his relationship with Kim, which has had its share of ups and downs.
“We have developed a very good relationship and we understand each other, I do believe he understands me and I think I maybe understand him and sometimes that can lead to very good things,” Trump said.
Trump has a busy schedule for his Sunday, including a visit to the U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan Landing Zone in Seoul.
His public schedule says his long-planned stop at the Korean Demilitarized Zone Overlook is set for 2:30 p.m., which will be 1:30 a.m. ET.
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 fell apart, 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.
