President Trump said that “things are going very well” with discussions involving North and South Korea, after speaking Saturday morning with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Trump intends to meet with formally with leaders from North and South Korea in order to reach an agreement to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and bring peace to the region. The president said Friday that the U.S. had narrowed potential locations for the meeting to “two or three sites” in two countries.
After his conversation with Moon on Saturday, Trump also briefed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the negotiations.
Just had a long and very good talk with President Moon of South Korea. Things are going very well, time and location of meeting with North Korea is being set. Also spoke to Prime Minister Abe of Japan to inform him of the ongoing negotiations.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2018
Trump accepted with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s invitation to meet in March, following a turbulent year of personal insults and weapon tests. Few details are publicly known about planning, but the White House says Trump would like the meeting to happen in May or early June.
This week, Kim Jong Un crossed the border into South Korea, the first time a North Korean leader has done so since the Korean War ended in 1953.
He shook hands with Moon, and the two talked and committed to peace.
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has said she is “pleasantly surprised” at the progress made and credited Trump’s work.
“One, I think — clearly, credit goes to President Trump,” she told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “He’s been determined to come to grips with this from day one. My president also since day one, and I think presidents Moon and Trump have worked very closely together, sometimes in complementarity, sometimes in different messaging, but the level of consultations and the confidence between the two leaders has been instrumental in bringing us to this point.”
