According to him, Trump “welcomed” such a request and “expressed his readiness to cooperate with North Korea again.” The White House has not officially commented on this information.
The head of the South Korean Foreign Ministry expressed hope that it would be good if Trump met with the head of the DPRK Kim Jong -un in the near future. According to the diplomat, the President of South Korea clearly made it clear to Trump that he was giving “management” by this process, while he himself would only set the pace. Lee Jae Men seeks Trump to act as a “peacekeeper”, show his leadership and put Pyongyang at the negotiating table with Seoul.
The diplomat said that Liu Jae Men asked Trump to take the initiative to resolve relations with Pyongyang, “since the world has changed and became much more unstable after the Russian aggressor country to Ukraine in 2022.” According to the South Korean minister, against the backdrop of the geopolitical situation, Seoul is concerned “with any possible military clash on the Korean Peninsula”, therefore he is forced to look for the possibilities of dialogue with North Korea to reduce military tension.
Context
Relations between Washington and Pyongyang were tense because of North Korea’s nuclear program and sharply complicated in early April 2017, when she once again launched a ballistic missile towards the east coast of South Korea, which fell in the Sea of Japan. Thus, the DPRK once again violated the UN Security Council resolution. Then Trump stated that North Korea “is looking for troubles.” The DPRK believed that the United States tend to invade their country. The relationship of Pyongyang and Washington was described in detail in the material “Gordon”.
During his first presidential cadence, Trump met three times with the leader of North Korea Kim Jong -un. The last meeting took place in June 2019 in Phanmunjomi – a village in a demilitarized zone on the border of the DPRK and South Korea. On June 30, Moon Zhe Ying, who was then the president of South Korea, announced the end of the hostility era and the beginning of a new, peaceful era between the DPRK and the USA, but in November in North Korea it was noted that they were no longer interested in negotiations with Trump, because they “give nothing.”
On August 25, Trump said that he had a “very good relationship” with Kim Jong -un and is looking forward to a new meeting with him.
On September 21, Kim Jong -un announced the absence of reasons to avoid negotiations with the United States, but if in Washington they abandon the idea of complete denuclearization of the DPRK.
On September 25, Jae Men informed that the DPRK is now at the last stage of the development of an intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of impressing the United States with nuclear weapons.
