NEW: President Trump tweets invitation to North Korea's Kim Jong Un to meet in demilitarized zone.
OSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump made an extraordinary public offer Saturday to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, inviting him to shake hands “and say hello” in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
The White House declined to comment about any potential meeting beyond the president’s tweet. But Trump, meeting minutes later in Osaka with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, said he'd merely"put out a feeler if he'd like to meet." He said the invite followed a"very beautiful birthday card" that Kim had sent him and a return letter that Trump had sent to Kim in Pyongyang.
Trump’s last summit with Kim Jong Un — in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February — collapsed abruptly, with a planned signing ceremony scrapped and Trump explaining to reporters that “sometimes you have to walk.” At the center of that failure, U.S. officials have said, was Kim’s insistence that all nuclear sanctions be lifted in exchange for only some concessions sought by the U.S. from Pyongyang related to its nuclear program.
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