South Korea's Lee backs a Trump-Kim summit at the UN and outlines a phased denuclearization path

At the UN General Assembly in New York, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung backed Donald Trump's stated plan to meet Kim Jong Un later this year, calling it a hard-won chance to resume long-suspended U.S.–North Korea talks. Kim Yo Jong said she was unaware of any contact between the leaders, and no meeting is confirmed. Lee pledged groundwork to end the Korean War—still unresolved since a 1953 armistice—and a phased plan: halt North Korea's nuclear and missile advances, then reduce them, then seek a nuclear-free peninsula.