Trump Declares In Tweet: 'KOREAN WAR TO END'

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump tweeted "KOREAN WAR TO END" Friday after a historic meeting between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea.

Trump responded to the meeting of North Korea's Kim Jong Un with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in South Korea. They pledged in a joint statement to rid their peninsula of nuclear weapons — but didn't identify any specific new measures to achieve that.

Trump is expected to meet with Kim in late May or June.

He tweeted: "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!"

In a separate tweet sent minutes earlier, Trump said "good things are happening, but only time will tell."

Trump later offered credit to China, tweeting: "Please do not forget the great help that my good friend, President Xi of China, has given to the United States, particularly at the Border of North Korea. Without him it would have been a much longer, tougher, process!"

PHOTO: Kim Jung-sook, South Korea's first lady, second left, and Ri Sol Ju, North Korea's first lady, left, embrace as Kim Jong Un, North Korea's leader, center, and Moon Jae-in, South Korea's president, right, watch following the inter-Korean summit at the village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Paju, South Korea, on Friday, April 27, 2018. Kim and Moon agreed Friday to finally end a seven-decade war this year, and pursue the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Source: Inter-Korean Summit Press Corps/Pool via Bloomberg