This handout from the presidential Blue House taken on March 5, 2018 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) shaking hands with South Korean chief delegator Chung Eui-yong (L), who travelled as envoys of the South’s President Moon Jae-in, during their meeting in Pyongyang.
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump will meet by May to secure a deal to remove nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula, a senior South Korean official said after talks at the White House.

“I told President Trump that at our meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he’s committed to denuclearization,” South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong said after returning from a recent visit to Pyongyang.

“Kim pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests,” he told reporters, in an extraordinary appearance on the White House driveway.

“President Trump appreciated the briefing, and said he would meet Kim Jong Un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization.”

AFP