{"id":139013,"date":"2026-09-01T08:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/139013\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:05:20","slug":"north-korea-us-summit-appears-possible-at-any-time-seoul-spy-agency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/139013\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea-US summit appears &#8216;possible at any time&#8217; \u2014 Seoul spy agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL \u2014 A summit between the United States and North Korea appears &#8220;possible at any time&#8221; as signs have emerged of dialogue between them, a lawmaker citing South Korea&#8217;s spy agency said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has floated the idea of new meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but has mostly been met with silence in public from Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regarding the North Korea-US summit, there was an analysis that it should be viewed as possible at any time,&#8221; South Korean lawmaker Youn Kun-young told reporters, citing a briefing by the National Intelligence Service.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker added that &#8220;while no facts regarding concrete contact between the two sides have been presented, there are signs of dialogue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Maritime exercises set to begin September 7 between the United States and allies South Korea and Japan have drawn an angry response from Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news<br \/>\n                <br class=\"br-line\"\/><br \/>\n                delivered to your inbox<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for The Manila Times newsletters<\/p>\n<p>            By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/terms-of-service\" title=\"Terms of Service\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/privacy-policy\" title=\"Privacy Policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea&#8217;s foreign ministry said Monday the drills &#8220;constitute a threat&#8221; to the nation and other countries in the region.<\/p>\n<p>            <a data-fancybox=\"gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/manilatimes.net\/manilatimes\/uploads\/images\/2026\/09\/01\/1197278.jpg\" data-caption=\"North Korea&#039;s leader Kim Jong Un (left) and US President Donald Trump shake hands during a meeting on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019. AFP PHOTO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/manilatimes.net\/manilatimes\/uploads\/images\/2026\/09\/01\/1197278.jpg\" alt=\"North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (left) and US President Donald Trump shake hands during a meeting on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019. AFP PHOTO\" data-alt- data-default- width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" onerror=\"this.src=\" https:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                North Korea&#8217;s leader Kim Jong Un (left) and US President Donald Trump shake hands during a meeting on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019. AFP PHOTO\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2014 A summit between the United States and North Korea appears &#8220;possible at any time&#8221; as signs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35301,62882,141,2371,31,37698,3239,34,24803,2447,62373,70673,70671,70672,18819,70674,31742,59992,31243],"class_list":["post-139013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-demilitarized-zone","tag-joint-security-area","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-kim-yo-jong","tag-korea","tag-military-exercises","tag-national-intelligence-service","tag-north-korea","tag-north-korean-missiles","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-panmunjom-meeting","tag-pyongyang-response","tag-seo-summit","tag-south-korea-spy-agency","tag-trump-kim-meeting","tag-trump-kim-relationship","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-us-south-korea-drills","tag-us-north-korea-dialogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}