US President Donald Trump said the time and place for his much-anticipated meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been decided, and will shortly be made public.
Earlier this week, the US president suggested that the demilitarised zone, or DMZ, between North and South Korea would be an excellent venue for the planned summit, but that Singapore was also a possible site.
“We now have a date and we have a location. We’ll be announcing it soon,” Trump said as he left the White House on a trip to Texas on Friday.
Plans for a meeting between Trump and Kim follow months of angry exchanges between the two over Pyongyang’s testing of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, including some theoretically capable of reaching the US mainland.
But a surprising about-turn by Kim in recent months has raised hopes of a turning point in the region.
Seoul and Pyongyang have remained technically at war since the 1950s but South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Kim agreed at a landmark summit last week to work towards a permanent treaty to replace a 65-year-old armistice.
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