{"id":61727,"date":"2018-04-17T23:48:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T23:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/04\/17\/trump-says-us-and-north-korea-talking-at-extremely-high-levels\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:25:03","slug":"trump-says-us-and-north-korea-talking-at-extremely-high-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/17\/trump-says-us-and-north-korea-talking-at-extremely-high-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US and North Korea talking at \u2018extremely high levels\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. and North Korea are holding direct talks at \u201cextremely high levels\u201d in preparation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/09\/us-official-says-north-korean-leader-ready-to-discuss-nukes\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">a potential summit<\/a> with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump and Kim have not spoken directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump appeared to answer in the affirmative to that question when asked about the talks at his private Mar-a-Lago club, where he is hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet\u2019s leave it a little bit short of that,\u201d he said later, adding, \u201cWe have had talks at the highest level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/18\/us-officials-say-pompeo-has-met-with-north-koreas-kim\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18108062405510.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US officials say Pompeo has met with North Korea\u2019s Kim<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently traveled to North Korea to meet with leader Kim Jong Un, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also confirmed that North and South Korea are working to negotiate an end to hostilities before next week\u2019s meeting between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The meeting will be the third inter-Korean summit since the Koreas\u2019 1945 division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey do have my blessing to discuss the end of the war,\u201d said Trump, who welcomed Abe to his Florida resort on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump is looking to hold his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/11\/us-officials-say-no-added-conditions-for-north-korea-talks\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">summit with Kim<\/a> in the next two months and said five locations are under consideration. The president would not disclose the sites but said the U.S. was not among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed summit follows months of increasingly heated rhetoric over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/28\/ahead-of-trump-summit-new-activity-at-north-korea-nuke-site\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">North\u2019s nuclear weapons program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have had direct talks at very high levels \u2014 extremely high levels \u2014 with North Korea,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ll either have a very good meeting or we won\u2019t have a good meeting,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd maybe we won\u2019t even have a meeting at all, depending on what\u2019s going in. But I think that there\u2019s a great chance to solve a world problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president did not answer shouted questions about whether he has spoken with Kim.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/06\/trump-kim-summit-may-boost-recovery-of-us-korea-war-remains\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/EXAXGIWND5D7FALGG3ZLF7H2JM.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump, Kim summit may boost recovery of US Korea War remains<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">More than six decades after the troops died for their country, the repatriation of the remains of thousands of U.S. military personnel missing in action and presumed dead from the Korean War may finally get a boost now that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are expected to hold the first-ever summit between their countries.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kim\u2019s offer for a summit was initially conveyed to Trump by South Korea last month, and the president shocked many when it was announced that he had accepted. U.S. officials have indicated over the past two weeks that North Korea\u2019s government has communicated directly with Washington that it is ready to discuss its nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abe, who has voiced fears that short- and medium-range missiles that pose a threat to Japan might not be part of the U.S. negotiations, praised Trump on Tuesday for his bravery in agreeing to meet with the North Korean dictator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019d like to commend Donald\u2019s courage in his decision to have the upcoming summit meeting with the North Korean leader,\u201d Abe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump took credit for the inter-Korean talks, saying, \u201cWithout us and without me, in particular, I guess you would have to say, they wouldn\u2019t be discussing anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18107707740799.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18107707740799.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18107707740799.jpg.jpg?resize=300,196 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18107707740799.jpg.jpg?resize=768,501 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands during a meeting at Trump&#8217;s private Mar-a-Lago club, Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea has long sought a peace treaty with the U.S. to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War. But it is unusual for the North to seek to broach the issue directly with South Korea rather than with Washington. The armistice that ended the fighting was signed by the United Nations Command \u2014 the U.S.-led forces in the conflict \u2014 North Korea and China. South Korea was a member of the U.N. Command but was not a direct signatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. has traditionally sought to resolve the dispute over North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons program before addressing the North\u2019s demands for a peace treaty, which the isolated, authoritarian nation views as a means to ensuring its security. The U.S. retains nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea to deter North Korean aggression. The leaders of the two Koreas are due to meet April 27 on the southern side of the tense, demilitarized zone that separates them.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/21\/north-korea-says-its-diplomatic-moves-are-not-a-sign-of-weakness\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18080126278937.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">North Korea says its diplomatic moves are not a sign of weakness<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">North Korea\u2019s recent moves to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula are evidence of its confidence and national strength, not a sign of weakness, according to its state-run media.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Abe summit will serve as a test of whether the fond personal relationship the two leaders have forged on the golf course and over meetings and phone calls has chilled following Trump\u2019s recent moves, including his decision not to exempt Japan from new steel and aluminum tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official visit began Tuesday afternoon as an honor cordon of uniformed service members lined the palm-fringed drive to the club. Trump greeted Abe at the red-carpeted door of the mansion as the pair posed for photos ahead of a one-on-one meeting and a group discussion with national security officials about the Kim summit. The president and first lady Melania Trump later hosted Abe and his wife for an al fresco dinner on the Mar-a-Lago patio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the agenda will broaden to include other issues affecting the Indo-Pacific region, including trade and energy, and Trump said he and Abe would \u201csneak out\u201d to play a round of golf. Trump and Abe will also hold a news conference before the president and first lady host the Japanese delegations for dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first time Trump hosted Abe at Mar-a-Lago, North Korea conducted its first missile test of Trump\u2019s administration, and the two delivered a joint statement denouncing the launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time, Abe is seeking reassurance from Trump that security threats to Japan won\u2019t be overlooked in the U.S.-North Korea summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both sides insist that Trump and Abe remain close. U.S. officials stressed that Trump has met with Abe more than any other world leader and say they\u2019ve been in \u201cconstant contact\u201d since Trump accepted Kim\u2019s invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abe also said he had secured a commitment from Trump to raise with Kim the issue of Japanese abductees, one of his top policy priorities. He told Trump he was grateful for the commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pyongyang has acknowledging abducting 13 Japanese, while Tokyo maintains North Korea abducted 17. Five have been returned to Japan. North Korea says eight others died and denies the remaining four entered its territory. Japan has demanded further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. itself is pushing for the release of three Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After five years in office, Abe is one of Japan\u2019s longest-serving, post-World War II prime ministers but has suffered plummeting poll ratings over allegations that a school linked to his wife received preferential government treatment in a land sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writer Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. and North Korea are holding direct talks at \u201cextremely high levels\u201d in preparation for a potential summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong 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