On Tuesday, South Korean delegation announced that North Korean side and its leader Kim Jong-un confirmed commitment to the demilitarization of the Korean Peninsula during the meeting in Pyongyang. Additionally, North Korea expressed a willingness to hold talks with the United States, as well as to pause all nuclear tests and missile launches during the negotiations.
South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-Yong announced on Thursday that Trump had agreed to meet with Kim by May for talks on permanent denuclearization. The US president said that "the meeting [is] being planned."
Trump has further held talks concerning the North Korean issue with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The US President Donald Trump's decision to accept Kim Jong-un's invitation to meet in person came after Kim told South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong that he was committed to denuclearization and would refrain from future nuclear weapons' tests, and was ready to meet his American counterpart.
Rebalancing US trade relations, toughening trade policy and US withdrawal from the multilateral free trade agreements was one of the key pillars of Trump's pre-election program, with which he managed to win the presidential vote in 2016.
Keeping his promises, in January 2017 Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement signed with 11 other Pacific nations including Japan, which ratified the treaty.