Trump will come to South Korea next week to participate in the Pacific cooperation Apec's summit meeting there. And South Korea's reunification minister Chung Dong-Young says now that there are many signs of "a considerable opportunity" for a meeting with dictator Kim Jong-Un as well, and urges the USA and North Korea to take the chance.
Media in the USA have reported that discussions are quietly underway regarding where and when the two leaders would meet in that case.
Kim and Trump had several meetings during the American president's previous term of office, most recently in 2019 at Panmunjom, a normally closed passage at the heavily guarded border between North and South Korea. However, no concrete results came out of those talks.
Chung says that the South Koreans now note that personnel on the North Korean side have recently cleaned up and weeded at Panmunjom for the first time this year.
A new meeting is expected to primarily focus on disarmament. In recent years, North Korea has continued to build up its nuclear weapons arsenal, while beginning to cooperate closely militarily with Russia.
