Trump said he would instead attend an event at Andrews Air Force Base on another day and travel to Paris for Nov 11 events marking the centennial of the end of fighting in World War I.
Trump did not pledge to lift the sanctions but said he welcomed an end to the "harsh relationship" the countries had over the past two months.
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Trump broke with a decades-old precedent by refusing to release his returns as a presidential candidate in 2016 and continues to do so as president, saying his tax returns are under IRS audit.
Trump's verbal statement on Tuesday may indicate a step further than that.
Trump, in a series of tweets, said the task force may "add or subtract people" but will remain in place and focus on safely bringing the hardest-hit country out of its economic lockdown, as well as on finding a vaccine and other treatments for COVID-19. Just a day earlier, the president had said the panel would be broken up.
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Trump seethed about the piece and presented it as one more jab from the ranks of disgruntled critics in denial about his presidential successes, even as Washington was consumed with speculation about who wrote it.
Trump said he is "willing to do a lot" to provide security guarantees to Kim. "The best thing he could do is make a deal," he said.
Trump agreed on Jan. 25 to end a 35-day partial US government shutdown without getting the .7 billion he had demanded from Congress for a wall along the border with Mexico, handing a political victory to Democrats.
Trump reiterated his commitment to slapping tariffs on steel and aluminum on Tuesday.