U.S. President Donald Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has responded to his diplomatic overtures, signaling a potential thaw as Washington scales back joint military exercises with South Korea.
Trump on Saturday posted a photograph from the pair's June 2019 meeting at the Demilitarized Zone — their third face-to-face encounter — writing on Truth Social that he and Kim had gotten along very well. The White House has repeatedly indicated Trump is willing to engage Kim without preconditions.
During his first term, Trump met Kim three times: in Singapore in June 2018, Hanoi in February 2019, and the border village of Panmunjom in June 2019, where both leaders pledged commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Analyst Victor Cha at the Center for Strategic and International Studies suggested Kim may seek another summit after the U.S. midterm elections this autumn.