North and South Korea on Friday signed a declaration – a ‘peace regime’ – agreeing to work for the “complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula’, bringing the Korean War to an end after 68 years.
"If I think that if it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we're not going to go. If the meeting when I'm there is not fruitful I will respectfully leave the meeting," Trump said.
Trump had disclosed on Tuesday that the US and North Korea were holding direct talks at “extremely high levels” in preparation for a possible summit.
Tillerson says the United States has "not heard anything directly back from North Korea" since President Donald Trump accepted leader Kim Jong Un's invitation for a meeting.
The rival Koreas also agreed to hold a leadership summit in late April.
The US has imposed new sanctions on North Korea for using chemical warfare agent VX to assassinate Kim Jong Un's half-brother, the State Department said on Wednesday.
The eccentric claims by the dictator of an isolated nation beg the serious question, can United States attack a nuclear-armed North Korea?
"I've been saying it for a long, long time," the US president wrote in his tweet which has been liked by over 47,000 followers.
The sanctions have been imposed in response to North Korea's latest launch of a ballistic missile that Pyongyang says is capable of reaching anywhere on the US mainland.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Washington would not accept any preconditions for talks with Pyongyang.
In comments attributed to an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesman, North Korea also claimed high-ranked US officials, including CIA Director Mike Pompeo, have further confirmed American intent for war with a series of "bellicose remarks."
In some of the photos, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un can also be seen inspecting the missile test which some observers believe could reach Washington and the entire US Eastern Seaboard.
North Korea has yet to back away from its biggest threat: a plan to lob missiles toward U.S. military bases on the island of Guam that Pyongyang says should be ready for leader Kim Jong Un to review anytime now
After arresting two American university instructors and laying out what it says was an elaborate, CIA-backed plot to assassinate Kim Jong Un, North Korea is claiming to be the victim of state-sponsored terrorism — from the White House.
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