U.S. President Donald Trump attends a joint press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on June 30. AFP

Following is the full text of U.S. President Donald Trump's statement and answers to questions during the joint news conference with President Moon Jae-in. – E.D.

I'm just going to make a short statement, because we are going to the DMZ border and I'll be meeting with Chairman Kim. I look forward to it very much. I look forward to seeing him. We have developed a good relationship. And we understand each other. I do believe that he understands me and I think I maybe understand him. Sometimes it leads to good things. I want to start by thanking President Moon and, very importantly, first lady Moon. She's a very special woman, a very special spirit. We had a very great dinner last night. Spent a large part of the morning discussing lots of different things, including trade and military, frankly, and many other items.

I would just mention that our great ambassador was talking about the turmoil going on. Because of the level of vitriol that was happening between North and South. But it was the North to a large extent, where there was a lot of risk, threat and a lot of bad things happening. That was before I became the president.

At the beginning, there was a lot of anger between myself and Kim Jong-un, but since, something happened. There was a point at which it happened and all of the sudden we got along. And I figured when I was in Japan, where they hosted a fantastic G20. And I just want to thank Prime Minister Abe. They did a fantastic job and a lot of good things came out of that, I can tell you, from the standpoint of the U.S.

But we decided to come here a while ago as part of going to the G20. I promised President Moon. And then yesterday I was thinking, "Hey, I'm here. Let's see whether or not if I can say hi to Kim Jong-un." And I put out the word and he got back. He wanted to do it from the beginning and so did I. But there's a lot of good feeling. When sometimes the media will say "Gee. What happened?" What's happened is there was nuclear testing, ballistic and missile testing; they had a hostage of ours, very tough situation. Now we're getting back our remains. We got our hostages back. There has been no ballistic missile test and no nuclear test. South Korea is a whole different place. And Japan. Prime Minister Abe was telling me that Japan is a whole different place. They had missiles going over Japan on a very constant basis. So I hate to hear the media give false information to the public.

There's also a good feeling. I can talk on behalf of President Moon. He feels much better about even Chairman Kim.