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UPDATE: Trump to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un by May, says South Korea

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet by May and Kim has pledged to refrain from further nuclear or missile tests, South Korea's national security chief Chung Eui-yong said in Washington on March 8.

The North Korean leader also understands that routine U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises must continue, Chung said, Bloomberg News reported.

The South Korean official is in Washington to brief U.S. officials about recent talks between North Korea and South Korea in Pyongyang. During their meetings in Pyongyang, North Korean officials indicated they would consider halting their nuclear weapons program if the U.S. can guarantee the safety of Kim's regime, the Bloomberg report said.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe "welcomed the change in North Korea's stance" to hold talks on the premise of denuclearisation. At the same, Abe said he and Trump agreed in telephone talks that the international community needed to continue to put maximum pressure on North Korea.

Abe said he hoped to visit the U.S. in April to meet Trump to discuss North Korea, among other issues.

Japan's Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera also stressed North Korea must commit to abandoning its nuclear program completely for any meaningful talks to take place with Pyongyang.

Article amended at 9:30 a.m. ET on March 9, 2018, to include the Japan government's reaction.