U.S., North Korea Officials Meet at DMZ
The State Department says the meeting is taking place at the border village of Panmunjom as talks continue over a potential summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un.The U.S. State Department says American officials are meeting with North Korean officials at the border village of Panmunjom as talks continue over a potential summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert says a ‘U.S. delegation is in ongoing talks with North Korean officials” inside the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea that was created at the end of the Korean War.
She says preparations are moving ahead for “a meeting” between the two leaders.
Trump said Saturday that conversations about a potential summit were “going along very well.”
He announced on Thursday that he was withdrawing from the scheduled June 12 meeting in Singapore, only to say on Friday that the summit might be back on.
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