WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump may support South Korea’s new initiative to engage with North Korea and promote peace on the Korean Peninsula as it would be viewed as part of the overall effort to bring Pyongyang back to dialogue, a prominent U.S. expert said Friday. During an online press briefing, Victor Cha, president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, made the comment on the “END” initiative to foster peace through “exchange,” “normalization” and “denuclearization.” “I think that he would not have a problem supporting the END initiative because he would see it as part of the overall effort to bring North Korea back to the table,” Cha said during the briefing on Trump’s upcoming visit to Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit set to take place on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung unveiled the initiative during a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, as his administration seeks to resume inter-Korean engagement to reduce te
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