The
North Korean government reportedly found President Trump’s surprise Twitter
invitation to meet with Kim Jong Un at the DMZ this weekend “very interesting.”
“We see it as a very interesting suggestion, but we have not
received an official proposal,” Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said through
North Korean state television Saturday, according to Reuters.
Trump will leave the G-20 summit in Japan on Saturday to meet
with President Moon Jae-in in South Korea.
On Friday, the president tweeted, “After some very important
meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving
Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of
North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his
hand and say Hello(?)!”
Choe seemed intrigued by the possibility of a third Trump-Kim
meeting, after previous sitdowns in Singapore last June and in Hanoi, Vietnam,
in February.
“I am of the view that if the DPRK-U.S. summit meetings take
place on the division line, as is intended by President Trump, it would serve
as another meaningful occasion in further deepening the personal relations
between the two leaders and advancing the bilateral relations,” Choe said,
according to Reuters.
Since the Hanoi summit between the two leaders broke down
earlier this year, Trump and Kim have exchanged personal letters that Trump has
called “beautiful” and Kim has called “excellent.”
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