UNITED NATIONS: South Korea\u2019s president has asked President Donald Trump to become \u201ca peacemaker\u201d and use his leadership to get North Korea to talks to reduce military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the South\u2019s top diplomat said Friday.<\/p>\n
Trump \u201cwelcomed\u201d the request from President Lee Jae-myung \u201cand he expressed his willingness to be engaged with North Korea again,\u201d Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said in an interview with The Associated Press. There was no immediate word from the White House.<\/p>\n
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met three times as North Korea was building a nuclear weapons stockpile, which Kim views as key to the country\u2019s security and his continued rule of the northeast Asian country.<\/p>\n
There were two summits in Singapore in June 2018, and in Vietnam in February 2019, where Trump and Kim disagreed about US-led sanctions against the North. A third meeting that year at the border between the two Koreas failed to salvage their nuclear talks \u2014 and Kim has since shunned any diplomacy with the US and South Korea.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be fantastic if they met with each other in the near future,\u201d Cho said. \u201cAnd President Lee Jae-myung made it clear to President Trump that he will not be sitting in the driver\u2019s seat. He asked president Trump to become a peacemaker, and he relegated himself to become a pacemaker,\u201d the foreign minister said. \u201cWe don\u2019t mind. On the contrary, we want president Trump (to) exercise his leadership to pull North Korea to dialogue table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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