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KOREAN WAR TO END! The United States, and all of its GREAT people, should be very proud of what is now taking place in Korea!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 27, 2018

The president then tweeted about the role Xi Jinping, China's president, had in the negotiations. Xi met secretly with North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Beijing late last month.

KOREAN WAR TO END! The United States, and all of its GREAT people, should be very proud of what is now taking place in Korea!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 27, 2018

The meeting was the first time a North Korean leader had ever set foot in the South.

\"We talked about peace and prosperity,\" South Korean president, Moon Jae In, said. \"A bold decision has been made. Big applause should be given to Kim Jong Un.\"

\"There is no turning back,\" he added.

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Korea Summit Press via Reuters
PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in attend a welcoming ceremony in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, South Korea, April 27, 2018.
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Kim, who took over as North Korean leader after his father’s death in 2011, was also positive.

\"Same people, same blood, so we cannot be separated and should live together in unification,\" Kim said. \"I hope we live together soon as a new path forward.\"

The president’s tweets Friday are starkly different from past comments he's made about Kim.

Last year he tweeted that he had a “nuclear button” that’s “much bigger and more powerful” than Kim’s, and announced that the U.S. was “locked and loaded” should North Korea “act unwisely.” Trump repeatedly referred to Kim in his tweets as “Little Rocket Man.”

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2018

But Trump has been resolute in his goal to denuclearize the peninsula.

“When I came into office, people thought we were going into nuclear war, OK, and now they're saying wow — it looks like that's going to be taken care,” Trump said Thursday on \"Fox & Friends.\"

Being nice to Rocket Man hasn't worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won't fail.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2017

The U.S. and North Korea have narrowed down the location of a meeting to five locations. A senior U.S. official previously told ABC News that Trump had ruled out China and that it was highly unlikely Kim would agree to meet in the U.S. or that Trump would agree to a location in North Korea.

Possible venues include Sweden or Switzerland.

Joohee Cho and Hakyung Kate Lee contributed to this report.

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