Trump and Moon will "continue their close coordination" on issues regarding the Korean peninsula and will discuss the inter-Korean summit that took place on April 27, as well as the United States president's upcoming summit with the North Korean leader, Efe reported.

Trump revealed on Friday that a date and venue for the landmark meeting will be unveiled soon. "You know we have 32,000 troops there but I think a lot of great things will happen but troops are not on the table".

"The New York Times story is utter nonsense".

"President Trump and President Moon will continue their close coordination on developments regarding the Korean Peninsula following the April 27 inter-Korean Summit", the statement continued.

"We're doing very well with the hostages, we're in constant contact with the leadership, we're in constant contact with North Korea", the president said on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base.

A summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un is also set to take place in the coming weeks, after decades of hostility between Pyongyang and Washington.

"There's a vast difference between blowing up a cooling tower and dismantling your only and, if what Kim said was right, functioning nuclear test site", he said, adding Kim was "giving away in advance one of the major chips he could have saved for the actual meeting with Trump". Kim Dong-chul, a business man in his mid-60s, has been detained in North Korea for two years. But momentum for diplomacy has built this year as the rival Koreas have patched up ties.

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Besides, Trump has been dealing with Kim from a position of strength so far. Two weeks ago, shortly before the inter-Korean summit, Moon said Kim actually wasn't insisting on its long-standing demand for the withdrawal of USA troops as a precondition for abandoning the nuclear program.

National security adviser John Bolton said Friday that Trump "has not asked the Pentagon to provide options for reducing American forces stationed in South Korea". It was also the first time that the summit was being held in South Korea. "As I said yesterday, stay tuned", Trump said, referring to an earlier tweet. He's reported to have told President Moon that it was heartbreaking to see two different clocks at the Peace House, one showing South Korean time and the other showing North Korean time.

ReutersDonald Trump has previously threatened to "destroy" North Korea. "If they are gone, we will lose proof that the Americans will defend us".

The White House is denying a published report that President Donald Trump is seeking options to reduce the US troop presence on the Korean peninsula. If he indeed concedes troop reductions for North Korea's denuclearisation, then the message going out to the world could be not as positive as it seemed earlier. "Much of the reason they are staying here will be gone".

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