The North Korean leader has grown closer to Moscow since he and Trump met in 2019 and did not respond to the U.S. president’s public push for a meeting.

Donald Trump has said that he is “looking forward" to his scheduled meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.

Trump and Lee agreed that Seoul can split its promised $350 billion investment fund into $200 billion in cash to be paid in instalments and capped at $20 billion per year, Lee's aides said.