The leader of South Korea hopes the White House will help establish a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, a task that President Donald Trump seems eager to take on.

President Lee Jae Myung opened his joint White House press conference with ample flattery for Trump and directly asked the president to oversee peace talks between his government and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un .

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“I would like to ask for your role in establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula,” Lee told Trump through a translator. “So I look for

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