By Yonhap
US President Donald Trump may travel to the inter-Korean border in early November when he visits South Korea, a defense source said Tuesday.
The White House dispatched an advance team of working-level officials in late September to check candidate sites for Trump's "special activity" here, according to the source.
"They looked around Panmunjom and Observation Post Ouellette," the source said on the condition of anonymity.
Trump is expected to send a significant message to North Korea, either verbally or "kinetically," during his first trip to the peninsula as US commander-in-chief."Trump will likely do something like that and his aides are making the relevant preparations," added the source.
He is scheduled to visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines starting Nov. 2. No exact itinerary has yet been announced.
The truce village of Panmunjom and the observation post, both located inside the heavily-fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), are among facilities Trump is considering visiting.
"He may instead visit frontline islands such as Yeonpyeong-do or Baengnyeong-do. I am not sure whether the advance team went there, too," said the source.
If Trumps opts for Panmunjom, where pistol-carrying North Korean soldiers stand guard just a stone's throw away, it would raise greater security concerns.
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