Trump arrives in South Korea after asking to meet Kim Jong Un at Korean Demilitarised Zone

US President Donald Trump landed in South Korea on Saturday after inviting Kim Jong Un, the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea, to an impromptu meeting in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula.

Air Force One touched down at Osan air base south of the capital, an AFP journalist on board said.

Trump earlier tweeted from Japan, where he was attending a G-20 summit, that he would be willing to meet Kim "at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!"

After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2019

The proposal by the US President to meet Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on the Korean border was a "very interesting suggestion", North Korea responded afterward.

"We see it as a very interesting suggestion, but we have not received an official proposal," the official KCNA news agency cited first Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui as saying.

"I am of the view that if the DPRK-U.S. summit meetings take place on the division line, as is intended by President Trump, it would serve as another meaningful occasion in further deepening the personal relations between the two leaders and advancing the bilateral relations," he said.