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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung urged U.S. President Donald Trump to take the lead in seeking a peaceful resolution of tensions with North Korea during a brief exchange at the Group of Seven summit. According to Lee's office, Trump responded positively and the two leaders discussed the issue during a group photo session. The G7 leaders later issued a joint statement expressing deep concern about North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs and reaffirmed commitment to complete denuclearization. The statement also addressed the abduction of Japanese citizens and North Korea's cryptocurrency thefts and cybercrimes. Trump's previous diplomacy with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, including summits in Singapore and Hanoi, is noted, with Trump signaling interest in reviving direct talks.
Republic of Korea President Lee Jae Myung at the Rizal Monument during a two-day state visit to the Philippines, Mar. 3, 2026. — PHILIPPINE STAR/RYAN BALDEMOR SEOUL — South Korea n President Lee Jae Myung asked US President Donald Trump to take the lead in seeking a peaceful resolution of tensions with North Korea during a brief exchange at the Group of Seven summit on Tuesday, Mr. Lee’s office said.
The two leaders greeted each other during a G7 leaders’ group photo, presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said, where Mr. Trump asked Mr. Lee about the current state of relations with North Korea. Mr. Lee asked Mr. Trump to lead efforts to resolve the North Korea issue peacefully, as he had done with the war in the Middle East, according to Mr. Lee’s office. Mr. Trump responded that he would work to address the North Korea issue, Mr. Kang said.
In a joint statement issued on Wednesday following the summit, G7 leaders expressed “deep concern” about North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs and reaffirmed their commitment to the “complete denuclearization of North Korea in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions. ” The leaders also urged North Korea to resolve the issue of Japanese citizens abducted by Pyongyang and reiterated the need to jointly address North Korea’s cryptocurrency thefts and cybercrimes.
Mr. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held three meetings during Mr. Trump’s first term, including a landmark summit in Singapore in 2018, a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 and a meeting later that year at the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas, where Mr. Trump became the first sitting US president to step into North Korea. The diplomacy collapsed after the Hanoi summit failed to produce an agreement on dismantling North Korea’s nuclear program and easing US-led sanctions.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly signaled interest in reviving direct diplomacy with Mr. Kim. He said in August 2025 that he looked forward to seeing the North Korean leader “in the appropriate future”, and said in October he would “love” to meet Mr. Kim again. Mr. Trump last week posted a captionless photo of himself with Kim Jong Un on Truth Social, in an apparent reminder of their past diplomacy.
South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young on Monday said he viewed the post as a “good signal” that Mr. Trump would be willing to focus on a meeting with Mr. Kim once the conflict with Iran is resolved, local media reported. —China calls for more Global South voices to be heard at United Nations
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