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Agence France-Presse

US President Donald Trump said he hoped to organise a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in early 2019, perhaps as soon as January or February.
Trump told reporters travelling home to Washington with him aboard Air Force One from Argentina that “three sites” were in consideration for the meeting, a follow-up to their historic summit in Singapore in June.
When asked about a future meeting, Trump said: “I think we’re going to do one fairly (soon) - into January, February, I think.”
Trump had been in Buenos Aires for the Group of 20 summit.
When asked Saturday if he would ever host Kim in the United States, the Republican president replied: “At some point, yeah.”
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In June, Trump and Kim opened up dialogue on denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula after months of trading military threats and pointed barbs.
The two leaders signed a vaguely worded document on denuclearisation of the peninsula, but progress since has stalled as Washington and Pyongyang spar over the meaning of the document.
North Korea has taken few concrete steps to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was due to meet with a top North Korean official in early November, but the meeting was abruptly put off, with North Korea insisting that Washington ease sanctions.
On Friday, Trump discussed the situation with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
The pair “reaffirmed their commitment to achieve the final, fully verified denuclearisation” of North Korea, Trump’s spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.
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They agreed on the need for “maintaining vigorous enforcement of existing sanctions to ensure the DPRK understands that denuclearisation is the only path,” Sanders said, using the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
But differences have emerged between Washington and Seoul on how to proceed with Kim, as the dovish Moon has long favoured engagement with the North.
North and South Korea have begun to remove landmines and destroy military bunkers at parts of their common border as part of efforts to improve long-strained relations.
They have also begun work to reconnect a train line and repair another rail link across the border.
Despite the warming ties, it remains unclear whether Kim will make his first-ever visit to the South this year, as Seoul is hoping.
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Kim agreed to travel to Seoul after hosting Moon in Pyongyang in September for their third summit this year.
But prospects of a fourth Moon-Kim meeting have recently dimmed, with negotiations on denuclearising the North grinding to a halt.
In his talks with Trump in Argentina, Moon earned some support for the Seoul summit from the US leader - perhaps in a bid to entice Kim to make good on his pledge.
The two leaders said Kim’s visit to the South Korean capital “would provide additional momentum to their joint efforts to establish peace on the Korean peninsula,” Moon’s press secretary Yoon Young-chan said.


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Donald Trump says next meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un could be in January

There are plans for a second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un. File photo: AFP

North Korea hiding military bases that could launch nuclear missiles at the US, reports show

New satellite images of hidden ballistic missile bases suggest North Korea’s claims to be eliminating its nuclear weapons are a deception. Photo: CSIS/Beyond Parallel/DigitalGlobe

epa07081090 (FILE) - Nikki Haley, the United States' Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses an United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, New York, USA, 17 September 2018 (reissued 09 October 2018). According to media reports, Nikki Haley is to resign from her post as US ambassador to the UN. EPA-EFE/JUSTIN LANE

Beyond Parallel classifies the operational North Korean missile bases into three zones, or 'belts', with the closest, where Sakkanmol is located, considered to be 'tactical'. Photo: CSIS/Beyond Parallel/DigitalGlobe

The bases are located close enough to launch strikes at 'critical facilities in the northern two-thirds of South Korea", yet far enough from the demilitarised zone to be 'beyond the range of South Korean and US long-range artillery', the report said.

In this Jan. 18, 2017, photo, Washington-based academic Victor Cha speaks during a seminar in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's Foreign Ministry spokesman Noh Kyu-duk said Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, that Washington asked for Seoul's understanding over the withdrawal of Cha for the ambassadorship. Noh didn't say how Washington explained the withdrawal. (Yonhap via AP)

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Three sites for their second meeting are under consideration
Trump said that at some point he will invite Kim to the United States


US President Donald Trump said that three locations for the meeting were being considered.


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Donald Trump says next meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un could be in January

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Three sites for their second meeting are under consideration

Trump said that at some point he will invite Kim to the United States