North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed “his fixed will” on a possible June 12 summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in a meeting on Saturday with the president of South Korea, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
North and South Korea also agreed to hold high-level meetings on June 1. A meeting between the two Koreas had been called off ahead of Trump's announcement he, too, would not meet with the North Korean leader.
Trump called off the meeting on Thursday, citing the "tremendous anger and open hostility," in recent statements from Pyongyang, and North Korea hardened its rhetoric toward the U.S., warning it was ready for a "nuclear-to-nuclear" showdown if the U.S. didn’t follow through on the summit.
But Trump reversed himself Friday after North Korea said it was willing to talk at "any time," and Kim, at a surprise meeting between the North Korean leader and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, produced a promise to continue discussions.
The two leaders agreed to "meet frequently in the future to make dialogue brisk and pool wisdom and efforts, expressing their stand to make joint efforts for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Yonhap said, citing the Korean Central News Agency.
"Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in shared the view that the two sides should trust and take care of with each other and exert joint efforts to make sure that the Panmunjom Declaration, reflecting the unanimous desire of all Koreans, is implemented at an early date," the KCNA said.
A White House team is traveling to Singapore to prep for the June 12 meeting between Kim and Trump.
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