South Korea pushes for Trump summit with renegade North Korea, seeing opportunity for peace

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 25, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersA U.S.-North Korea summit might bring peace, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said, in advocating for a meeting with the renegade state.Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly at New York, Lee said that U.S. President Donald Trump's resolve for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was "a hard won opportunity for change," and said he hopes that the "long suspended dialogue" between Pyongyang and Washington would resume. Trump has said he has plans to meet Kim "later this year." It was not clear if any meeting was actually planned. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, said that she was not aware of any communication between the two leaders.Trump met Kim three times in his first term, including in Singapore and Vietnam, but did not appear to make any headway at denuclearization. "We will lay the groundwork for this to develop into a dialogue among the parties aimed at ending the war on the Korean Peninsula and transitioning to a peace regime," Lee said in his speech. North and South Korea are still forma...