South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has appealed to Trump to be a “peacemaker.” He asked the American leader to try to bring North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un back to talks.
The Foreign Minister said that the US president “expressed his willingness to cooperate again with North Korea,” although the White House has not yet announced this.
In the summer of 2019, Trump visited the demilitarized zone on the border of North and South Korea. The goal of the talks was to denuclearize the DPRK, but the American leader was unsuccessful.
In the fall of 2019, North Korea blamed the United States for the failure of the negotiations, and Trump criticized Kim Jong-un and demanded that he “denuclearize as promised.” After that, relations between the countries deteriorated.
After returning to the Oval Office in January 2025, Donald Trump stated that he planned to resume negotiations with the North Korean dictator.