North Korea leader Kim Jong Un met with South Korea President Moon Jae-in Saturday in an effort to ensure a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump takes place as planned.
A surprise summit between North and South Korea on Saturday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with his Southern counterpart at the border of the two countries.
The reason? To ensure a summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump goes off successfully, South Korean officials say.
And the meeting is the clearest sign yet that the on-again off-again summit between Trump and Kim could be held as initially agreed - on June 12.
The talk betwen the two Koreas occured after President Trump publicly softened his tone Friday, in a backtrack from earlier in the week when he cited Pyongyang's 'open hostility' for ditching the summit.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:
"We'll see what happens. It could even be the 12th. We're talking to them now. The very much want to do it. We want to do it. We're going to see what happens."
It's been reported that an advance team of 30 White House and State Department officials was preparing to leave for Singapore later this weekend.
But the meeting is still not certain.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders:
(SOUNDBITE) (English) (WHITE HOUSE PRESS SEC SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, SAYING:
"The President is not just looking to have a meeting. He's not looking for a cheap political stunt. He wants to get something that's a long lasting a real solution."
Moon and Kim's Saturday rendezvous came a month after they held the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.
That was when they first declared they would move towards a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
Moon Jae-in, who returned to Seoul earlier this week after a meeting with Trump, will announce details of his face-to-face with Kim on Sunday morning.
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