Donald Trump revealed that there could be a third summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un

Donald Trump confirmed this Thursday that There could be a third summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. The President of the United States referred to the "possible future meetings", which would reactivate a dialogue with Pyongyang broke down since the failure of the Hanoi summit, during a meeting at the White House with his counterpart South Korean, Moon Jae-in.

"There could be a third summit," Trump said in a statement to the press after Moon's reception at the White House.

The dialogue between the United States and North Korea has been stalled since the end of February, when the second summit between Trump and Kim, held in the capital of Vietnam, culminated without agreement on the denuclearization process of North Korea.

"I like the highs, I enjoy being with the leader (Kim), but you have to go step by step"said the US president.

Trump felt that a "three-party summit would also be possible, with Moon, Kim and him, but added that" will depend a lot "on the North Korean leader.

For his part, he was ready to conclude "less important agreements" with North Korea, it does not necessarily concern denuclearization.

"There may be more modest agreements that can be made, things could happen. We could solve the problems step by step. But for the moment, we are talking about big problem, and the big problem is that we have to get rid of "North Korean" nuclear weapons, said Trump.

However, he said that the sanctions would remain in place, which allowed to maintain the approach proposed by North Korea. that the United States is progressively lifting economic restrictions in exchange for advances in denuclearization.

"Frankly, I have the opportunity to increase them significantly, but I did not want to, because of my relationship with Kim Jong-a," the US president said, referring to his statement last month according to which he had ordered the Treasury not to impose new sanctions on Korea. North.

Asked about the possibility of allowing the activation of inter-Korean economic projects, such as the reopening of the industrial zone of Kaesong, located on the North Korean territory and closed since 2016, Mr. Trump replied: "At the right time, I would have a lot of support (to do it.) This is not the right time."

He added that he would talk to Moon about "some humanitarian things" that their countries could do for North Korea, and badured that his relationship with Kim was "good", though he did not specify where he had had contacts with him in the last two weeks.

Moon, for one, said that he did not see the top of Hanoi as a failurebut as part of a long "process" with North Korea to solve a complex problem.