{"id":13573,"date":"2018-04-30T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/04\/30\/trump-floats-dmz-as-location-for-north-korea-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:15:12","slug":"trump-floats-dmz-as-location-for-north-korea-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/30\/trump-floats-dmz-as-location-for-north-korea-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump floats DMZ as location for North Korea meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump on Monday floated the idea of holding his planned summit with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/24\/in-big-shift-trump-assesses-kim-jong-un-as-very-honorable\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/27\/kim-jong-un-makes-history-crosses-border-to-meet-his-rival\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">the Demilitarized Zone<\/a> that divides the Koreas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s something that I like about it because you are there, you are actually there,\u201d Trump said at a news conference in the White House Rose Garden. \u201cIf things work out there\u2019s a great celebration to be had on the site, not in a third-party country.\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\/22\/road-to-north-koreas-denuclearization-is-littered-with-failure\/\" 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=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18111355411423.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\">Road to North Korea\u2019s denuclearization is littered with failure<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">While Seoul and Washington welcomed Pyongyang\u2019s declaration on Saturday to suspend further intercontinental ballistic missile tests and shut down its nuclear test site, the past is littered with failure.<\/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\">A Trump-Kim meeting would be the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/24\/us-wont-ease-sanctions-without-action-by-north-korea-on-nukes\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">U.S.-North Korean leadership summit<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday was the first time he\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18120700353299.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18120700353299.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18120700353299.jpg.jpg?resize=300,195 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18120700353299.jpg.jpg?resize=768,500 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 30, 2018. (Carolyn Kaster\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump on Monday made it sound like governments were vying to play host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEverybody wants us. It has the chance to be a big event,\u201d the president said alongside Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, whom he met at the White House Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe United States has never been closer to potentially have something happen with respect to the Korean Peninsula that can get rid of the nuclear weapons, can create so many good things, so many positive things, and peace and security for the world,\u201d Trump said.<\/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-forces-in-korea-arent-packing-up-just-yet-heres-why\/\" 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\/GettyImages-927755548.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 forces in Korea aren\u2019t packing up just yet. Here\u2019s why.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Any peace deal with North Korea is unlikely to have an immediate impact on the 23,000 U.S. troops deployed on the peninsula.<\/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\">True to form, he had first aired his thoughts on the summit venue in the early morning via Twitter, suggesting the Peace House and Freedom House on the southern side of the DMZ would be a \u201cRepresentative, Important and Lasting site.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump on Friday claimed credit for the inter-Korean summit, which has spurred hopes of peace on the Korean Peninsula after a torrid 2017 when North Korea rapidly advanced its development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. The president now faces a burden in helping turn the Korean leaders\u2019 bold but vague vision for peace into reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States has reached aid-for-disarmament deals with North Korea before. The most enduring effort negotiated by the Bill Clinton administration 1994 halted the North\u2019s production of plutonium for nearly a decade but collapsed over suspicions that it had a secret program to enrich uranium giving it an alternative route to make fissile material for bombs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Setting aside generations of animosity, Kim and Moon on Friday pledged to seek a formal end to the Korean War by year\u2019s end and to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korean officials cited Kim as saying he would be willing to give up his nuclear programs if the United States commits to a formal end to the war and a pledge not to attack the North. Kim had already suspended his nuclear and missile tests while offering to put his nukes up for negotiations. Seoul says he\u2019s willing to shut down his country\u2019s only known nuclear testing site and allow outside experts and journalists to watch the process. But there is still deep skepticism over whether Kim is truly willing to negotiate away the nukes that his country has built after decades of struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump on Monday repeated his complimentary appraisal of North Korea\u2019s current dictator Kim, whom just a few months ago he lampooned as \u201cLittle Rocket Man\u201d when fears of a war ran high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMaybe a lot of things change, but Kim Jong Un &#8230; has been very open and very straightforward so far,\u201d Trump said.\u201d I can only say again so far, but he\u2019s talking about getting rid of the site, which was their big site, he\u2019s talking about no research, no launches of ballistic missiles, no nuclear testing and he\u2019s lived up to that for a long period of time.\u201d The North\u2019s last missile test was in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump sounded confident that the summit would take place and would be a success, but left open the possibility of pulling the plug on talks, saying: \u201cIf it\u2019s not a success, I will respectfully leave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writer Catherine Lucey contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 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