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Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas.聽

The US president confirmed the meeting would take place during a joint news conference with South Korean president Moon Jae-in.

Ahead of the planned meeting, Mr Moon said it would represent a "significant milestone" and be an "historic event" after talks between the US and North Korea collapsed in February.

"I hope President Trump will go down in history as the president who achieves peace on the Korean peninsula," he said.

Mr Trump is being hosted by South Korea over the weekend before flying back to Washington on Sunday.

He extended an invitation to Mr Kim on Friday, tweeting: "if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!"

There was some uncertainty over whether the meeting would take place, after Mr Trump said the two countries were "working hard" but logistics and security issues remained.

But he said on Sunday: "I've been told that Kim Jong Un would like to meet, and it looks like they're in the final stages of working out just a very quick meeting.

"I guess there's always a chance that it might not (happen) but it sounds like the teams would like to have that worked out, and so that's good."

President Trump said he would be willing to cross into North Korean territory if Mr Kim accepted, saying he'd have "no problem" becoming the first US leader to step into the country.

He also insisted he has a "good relationship" with Mr Kim.

Mr Trump has been trying to restart nuclear talks with North Korea after they broke down during a second summit earlier this year in Vietnam.

The US was calling for denuclearisation, while the rogue state demanded relief from sanctions.

Speaking ahead of the meeting, Mr Trump hinted a third summit between the two nations might be on the cards.

"A third North Korea-US Summit, and the timing of that, really, that would depend on what kind of change today's encounter will bring about. But we have expectations for future development, obviously," he said.

South Korea's president described Mr Trump's invitation for another meeting as a "big hope to the Korean people".

He told reporters at a news conference with the US president that he can "really feel that the flower of peace was truly blossoming on the Korean peninsula".

Mr Trump said the meeting could be "very interesting" and believed the situation was "positive".

"I think I can say with great conviction that North Korea and South Korea are both in much better places right now than they were two and a half years ago when I became president," he said.

"You know at home they think that I'm a sort of a tough warmonger, I'm a war monger.

"They thought that when I got elected within the first year we'd be in World War Three. And I'm really the opposite of a war monger."