Where Will Trump Meet Kim Jong Un? President Names His Favorite Place for North Korea Summit

President Donald Trump appeared to endorse his desired and symbolic spot for his expected summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Monday morning, while adding that several countries were under consideration to host the potentially history-making event.

Trump, who spent much of last year chiding Kim with insults and threats, tweeted that he thought the Peace House, located inside South Korea but built decades ago for North and South leaders to meet, would be the ideal spot rather than a third country.

"Numerous countries are being considered for the MEETING, but would Peace House/Freedom House, on the Border of North & South Korea, be a more Representative, Important and Lasting site than a third party country? Just asking! ," the president tweeted.

Numerous countries are being considered for the MEETING, but would Peace House/Freedom House, on the Border of North & South Korea, be a more Representative, Important and Lasting site than a third party country? Just asking!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018

Earlier this month, Sweden and Switzerland were reportedly under consideration by the White House to host the meeting as well as sites in Asia and Southeast Asia, according to Bloomberg. The European nations have long been neutral and Switzerland's Geneva was the site for the famous conventions that established human rights during times of war.

The same report stated that China's Beijing as well as other sites in North and South Korea were not under consideration.

China, which has served as the North's sole ally for decades in which only an armistice maintained apparent peace between the North and South, was initially viewed as an ideal site.

Trump's not so veiled hint of where he would like the summit to occur came three days after Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met for the first time at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

Following their historic meeting, Moon said Kim had agreed to "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula as well as the formation of a peace treaty that would officially end a war that ended with an armistice agreement in the early 1950s.

The monumental meeting, as well as the potential for Trump to imminently become the first U.S. president to meet with a North Korean supreme leader, has followed an ever increasing war of words between Trump and Kim. But Trump has since received praise for garnering promises from the North's regime and for making progress on an issue that vexed so many of his predecessors.

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