Trump holds out prospect of N. Korean leader visit if summit successful
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday held out the prospect of inviting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the White House if he deemed next week's summit a success while also signaling he was willing to walk away if he thought talks did not go well.
At a White House news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump repeated what he said last Friday that it was possible he and Kim could sign an agreement to end the 1950-53 Korean War, which was concluded only with a truce, not a peace treaty.
"We could sign an agreement, as you know that would be a first step ... We're looking at it, we're talking about it with a lot of other people," Trump told reporters on Thursday. "That's probably the easy part. The hard part remains after that."
Trump added that he hoped someday US relations with Kim's secretive Pyongyang government could be normalized.
