"President Xi could be influencing Kim Jong-un," Trump said, pointing out that the North Korean dictator signaled a willingness to work for peace and meet with him before visiting China for the second time.
North Korea reported that the nation’s senior diplomats threatened to cancel scheduled high-level talks with South Korean counterparts as a result of ongoing military exercises with the United States.
Trump repeated that he had not heard specifically from North Korean officials, asserting that he only knew what he had read in the news.