President Donald Trump on Monday floated the idea of holding his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Koreas. That’s where South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Kim on Friday, the first time a North Korean leader has visited
President Donald Trump on Monday floated the idea of holding his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Koreas.
That’s where South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Kim on Friday, the first time a North Korean leader has visited south of the demarcation line that divides the rival nations.
“There’s something that I like about it because you are there, you are actually there,” Trump said at a news conference in the White House Rose Garden. “If things work out there’s a great celebration to be had on the site, not in a third-party country.”
A Trump-Kim meeting would be the first U. S.-North Korean leadership summit in more than six decades of hostility since the 1950-53 Korean War. Trump has previously said that five locations were being considered, but on Friday said the choice had been narrowed to two or three.
Monday was the first time he’d publicly specified potential locations for the meeting, slated for May or early June. He added that the Southeast Asian city state of Singapore was also in the running.
There’s been rampant speculation since Trump accepted the offer from Kim for direct talks on where would be an acceptable venue to both sides. Countries in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Mongolia or even a ship in international waters have all been suggested as possible venues.
Trump on Monday made it sound like governments were vying to play host.
“Everybody wants us. It has the chance to be a big event,” the president said alongside Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, whom he met at the White House Monday.
