Those included Singapore and the Peace House in the South Korean border town of Panmunjom, where the leaders of the two Koreas met last week. Mr. Trump continued to raise expectations for his own meeting with Mr. Kim, which is scheduled for late May or early June. And the president dismissed suggestions that ripping up the Iran nuclear deal, as many believe he will do as early as May 12, would jeopardize the prospects for an agreement with North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons program. “The United States has never been closer to potentially having something happen with respect to the Korean Peninsula, that can get rid of the nuclear weapons, can create so many good things, so many positive things, and peace and safety for the world,” Mr. Trump said during a Rose Garden news conference with President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Trump acknowledged that not all his advisers share his enthusiasm for meeting Mr. Kim in the Demilitarized Zone, a two-and-a-half-mile-wide, 160-mile-long strip of land, marked by heavily-armed observation posts, rolls of razor wire and barren hillsides.

Source: New York Times April 30, 2018 13:07 UTC