Ending A Visit To Asia, President Trump Doesn't Meet North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un

President Trump at Air Force One. (Wikimedia Commons/The White House/Shealah Craighead)

JAKARTA - United States President Donald Trump ended his working visit to Asia after reaching an agreement at his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, Thursday.

President Trump started his visit to Asia by arriving in Malaysia on Sunday to attend the 13th ASEAN Summit - United States.

From there, President Trump flew to Japan to meet Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi who had just served.

After finishing in Japan, President Trump continued his trip to South Korea to meet with President Lee Jae-myung in Gyeongju who hosted the APEC 2025 Summit, before meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan.

The next highlight of President Trump's goal was directed to North Korea, which attracted attention before he began a series of visits to Asia. And, President Trump ended his visit without meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

President Trump has previously repeatedly expressed his desire to meet again with Leader Kim, after a meeting in his first term, making him the first US president to set foot in North Korea on a surprise visit to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which is located on the North Korea-South Korea border, 2019, quoted from CNN, October 30.

President Trump said he could not meet Leader Kim because of his busy schedule.

"We can never talk because, look, I'm very busy," President Trump told reporters at Air Force One after leaving South Korea and ending his Asian tour on Thursday.

Yesterday, President Trump said he could not arrange a meeting with Leader Kim during his visit to Asia, quoted from CNA.

However, President Trump indicated that he still wanted to meet Leader Kim, later to return to Asia.

"We will make other visits, and we will work very hard with Kim Jong-un and everyone to solve this problem," he said.

In the first term of office, President Trump met with Leader Kim three times in the 2018-2019 period in Singapore, Vietnam and DMZ.

Previously, Leader Kim had expressed his stance that he would meet President Trump if Washington left what he called "absurd opposition" against denuclearization.

In a speech in September, Leader Kim said he still had "beautiful memories" of President Trump, but his country "would never exchange nuclear weapons to be free from sanctions."

In other words, the deal Trump offered six years ago exchanged sanctions relief by removing arms no longer applies to North Korea wanting to be recognized as a nuclear armed country.