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and Chinese trade officials held talks in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday seeking to de-escalate the trade spat.
China has not yet confirmed that Xi Jinping will meet Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in South Korea next week.
President Trump also said he's open to meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un while he's in South Korea.
Kim has made similar remarks, and the two met three times in 2018 and 2019, but there are currently no plans for the two to meet on this trip.
Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff says the North fired several short-range ballistic missiles from near the capital Pyongyang to the east.
It's not clear whether they landed on land or in the sea.
The launch comes a day after Japan's parliament voted in Sanae Takeuchi as its new prime minister.
It comes a week before President Trump arrives in Gyeongju, South Korea, ahead of a summit meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, or APEC.
South Korea's unification minister has speculated about the possibility of President Trump meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the inter-Korean border during his trip.
But there's been no official mention of any plans for such a meeting.
Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
Japan's parliament voted 64-year-old Sanai Takeichi in as prime minister just weeks after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, chose her as its president.
Her predecessor, Shigeru Ishiba, quit after the LDP suffered two big electoral defeats, reducing the LDP to a minority in both houses of parliament.
The LDP's longtime political ally, Komeito, walked out of their coalition.
The LDP signed a new coalition agreement with the opposition Japan Innovation Party.
While Takeichi is a fan of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and has broken Japan's glass ceiling, she takes a traditional view of gender roles.
Even for the conservative LDP, Takeichi's selection is widely seen as a hard swerve to the right.
Well, the martial law crisis turned many people against the ruling party, and it opened a rift within the ruling party between politicians who supported martial law and those who opposed it. We spoke to Chae Soo-ji, who is 43 and with her young son, and she says she remembers seeing tanks in her neighborhood when martial law was declared.