Seoul officials say they are looking at ways to secure a new agreement, with the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in due to hold a summit next week. “Five locations” were being considered for the summit with Kim, Trump said. The US-led United Nations command, China and North Korea are signatories to the half-century-old armistice, while South Korea is not. Abe thanked Trump for agreeing to bring up the issue of Japanese abductees taken to North Korea, a major domestic issue. He rejected the idea of the US re-entering the TPP Pacific trade agreement Tuesday, tweeting: “I don’t like the deal for the United States.

Source: The Guardian April 18, 2018 06:11 UTC