Despite speculations that U.S. President Donald Trump may meet North Korea's Kim Jong-un during his visit to South Korea this weekend,... Mr. Trump said he will not be sitting down with the North Korean leader this time.
Rather, he cryptically explained he may be in contact with Kim in a different way. He's now wheels up for Japan.
Kim Hyo-sun starts us off.
President Trump says he has no plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during his visit to South Korea this weekend.
Before leaving Washington for the G20 Summit in Japan, Trump told reporters Wednesday that he may be speaking with Kim in a different form.
He also stressed he will be meeting with a lot of people but not Kim Jong-un.
Trump elaborated a day earlier that he will meet with the North's leader at some point,... when asked about whether the letters he has recently exchanged with Kim might lay the path for a possible third North-U.S. summit.
President Trump will sit down with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul on Sunday, and is reportedly planning to visit the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas,... prompting speculation a third Kim-Trump summit could be arranged.
Now it's left to be seen whether Washington's Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, who's due in Seoul on Thursday,... can arrange working-level talks with the North to resume the stalled denuclearization process.
Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.