South Korea said on Friday that it is seeking high-level talks this month with North Korea to prepare for a summit and that President Moon Jae-in may meet Donald Trump before the U.S. president's planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Amid a flurry of diplomacy from Asia to Europe to Washington, Trump reaffirmed his plan to meet with Kim by the end of May during a phone call Friday with Moon, with both voicing "cautious optimism" about efforts to resolve the crisis over the North's nuclear weapons.
A White House statement said Trump and Moon discussed preparations for their upcoming engagements with Pyongyang and agreed that "concrete actions," not words, are the key to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.