{"id":61731,"date":"2018-03-09T00:34:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/09\/trump-to-meet-north-korea-leader-kim-jong-un-by-may-south-korea-official-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:44:27","slug":"trump-to-meet-north-korea-leader-kim-jong-un-by-may-south-korea-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/09\/trump-to-meet-north-korea-leader-kim-jong-un-by-may-south-korea-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to meet North Korea leader Kim Jong Un by May, South Korea official says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/08\/south-korea-leader-sees-more-obstacles-ahead-to-disarm-north-korea\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un<\/a> by May to negotiate an end to Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear weapons program, South Korean and U.S. officials said Thursday. No American president has ever met with a North Korea leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The South Korean national security director, Chung Eui-yong, told reporters outside the White House of the planned summit, after briefing Trump and other top U.S. officials about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/06\/north-korean-dictator-seoul-envoys-have-openhearted-talk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">rare meeting with Kim<\/a> in the North Korean capital on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting would be unprecedented during seven decades of animosity between the U.S. and North Korea. The countries do not even have formal diplomatic relations. They remain in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty.<\/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\/02\/27\/trump-sees-talks-with-north-korea-only-under-right-conditions\/\" 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\/AP18057629644697.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 sees talks with North Korea only under &#8216;right conditions&#8217;<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">President Donald Trump on Monday responded to an overture from North Korea for talks with the U.S., saying that will happen only \u201cunder the right conditions.\u201d<\/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\">Chung said he had told Trump that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/06\/north-korea-reportedly-willing-to-hold-nuclear-talk-with-us\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Kim says he\u2019s committed to \u201cdenuclearization\u201d<\/a> and has pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests \u2014 providing a rare diplomatic opening after a year of escalating tensions over the North\u2019s tests. The rival Koreas have already agreed to hold a leadership summit in late April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe (Kim) expressed his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible,\u201d Chung said. \u201cPresident Trump appreciated the briefing and said he would meet Kim Jong Un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chung did not say where Trump would meet with Kim. The White House said Trump\u2019s meeting with Kim would take place \u201cat a place and time to be determined.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18068016421240.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18068016421240.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18068016421240.jpg.jpg?resize=300,201 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18068016421240.jpg.jpg?resize=768,514 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">South Korean national security director Chung Eui-yong, center, speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 8, 2018, as intelligence chief Suh Hoon, left and Cho Yoon-je, the South Korea ambassador to United States listen. President Donald Trump has accepted an offer of a summit from the North Korean leader and will meet with Kim Jong Un by May, a top South Korean official said in a remarkable turnaround in relations between two historic adversaries. (Susan Walsh\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump took office vowing to stop North Korea from attaining a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the U.S. mainland. He\u2019s oscillated between threats and insults directed at Kim, and more conciliatory rhetoric. His more bellicose talk, and Kim\u2019s nuclear and missile tests, have fueled fears of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, who has ramped up economic sanctions on North Korea to force it to negotiate on giving up its nukes, has threatened the pariah nation with \u201cfire and fury\u201d if its threats against the U.S. and its allies continued. He has derided Kim by referring to him as \u201cLittle Rocket Man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Kim repeated threats against the U.S. in a New Year\u2019s address and mentioned the \u201cnuclear button\u201d on his office desk, Trump responded by tweeting that he has a nuclear button, too, \u201cbut it is a much bigger &amp; more powerful one than his, and my Button works!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday after leaving Pyongyang, Chung had publicized that North Korea was offering talks with the United States on denuclearization and normalizing ties, but the proposal for a summit still came as a huge surprise, and will raise questions about whether the two sides are ready for such a high-level meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chung, who credited Trump\u2019s \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign for the diplomatic opening, said Kim understands that routine U.S.-South Korea military drills \u201cmust continue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18066305891006.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18066305891006.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18066305891006.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18066305891006.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People watch a TV screen at the Seoul Railway Station that shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, meeting with South Korean National Security Director Chung Eui-yong in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. (Ahn Young-joon\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The drills were suspended during the Winter Olympics recently hosted by South Korea, which provided impetus for the inter-Korea rapprochement. The drills are expected to resume next month. North Korea has long protested the military maneuvers south of the divided Korean Peninsula as a rehearsal for invading the North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump had made a surprise visit to the White House press briefing room on Thursday afternoon to alert reporters to the South Korean announcement. When asked whether the announcement would be about talks with North Korea, he told ABC reporter Jon Karl: \u201cIt\u2019s almost beyond that. Hopefully, you will give me credit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, Trump had expressed both hope and skepticism about the reported offer of talks, which has yet to be confirmed, at least publicly, by the isolated North Korean government. While the path to a diplomatic resolution over the North\u2019s nuclear arsenal would be long and difficult, talks could dampen fears of war breaking out over what represents an emerging threat to the U.S. mainland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a few hours earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who is traveling in Africa, had said the adversaries were still a long way from holding negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, Catherine Lucey, Ken Thomas and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, President Donald Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un by May to negotiate an end to Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear weapons program, South Korean and U.S. officials said Thursday. 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