A State Department official confirmed Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had received a letter to President Donald Trump from North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.
According to the official, the President told reporters earlier that day that a letter was handed over at the Korean DMZ on Thursday and was en route to him.
“A letter is being delivered to me, a personal letter from Kim Jong-un to me. That was handed at the border, I don’t know if you know that, but it was handed at the border yesterday,” Trump told the press aboard Air Force One, expressing confidence the letter will be a “positive” one.
This is not the first such correspondence between the two leaders. Kim also sent a letter to President Trump through senior official Kim Yong Chol before meeting with the U.S. President in Singapore in June.
CNN informs that the letter follows comments by the North Korean leader made to a South Korean envoy that he has “unwavering trust for President Trump” and was willing to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula during Trump’s presidential term.
“This trust, despite some difficulties surfaced during the negotiation process between the U.S. and the North, will continue,” said South Korean special envoy Chung Eun-yong, who met with Kim in Pyongyang on Wednesday.
According to the South Korean official, Kim further said he was willing to take more active steps toward denuclearization provided they are met with corresponding ones from the U.S. The regime’s leader also noted he had “never said anything bad about President Trump to anyone,” and that he was ready to put an end to seven decades of hostilities on the Korean Peninsula.
President Trump later thanked Kim on Tweeter, writing “Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!”
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