A team was dispatched last month to analyse suitable sites along the border for the US President’s supposed “special activity” set to take place eerily close to the hermit kingdom.
The defence source said: “They looked around Panmunjom and Observation Post Ouellette.
“He may instead visit frontline islands such as Yeonpyeongdo or Baengnyeongdo. I am not sure whether the advance team went there, too.”
It is currently unknown as to what Mr Trump intends to do once he reaches the Demilitarised Zone – however, the source claims that he is likely to send a significant message to despot leader Kim Jong-un either verbally or “kinetically”.
The source added: “Trump will likely do something like that and his aides are making the relevant preparations.”
Two of the rumoured locations the President could visit are the village of Panmunjom and the Observation Post, the latter of which overlooks the Korean Bridge of No Return that links the Northern and Southern borders.
Both potential locations are located inside the Demilitarised Zone.
If the US President opts for Panmunjom, the global tension will be upped another palpable gear as he will be in touching distance of despot leader Kim Jong-un’s troops.
Matthew Matthews, the deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, recently told Korean media of the US’ future plans with the dictatorship.
He said: “We are in the process of upping the ante and increasing pressure on North Korea to change its behaviour.”
If Trump goes ahead with his Korean tour, he will join the likes of Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates who have all come frighteningly close to the isolationist nation.
The US President is scheduled to tour Asia next month with South Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam and the Philippines on the Republican’s visit list.
The war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un has reached its highest level of tension yet with the President recently stating the hermit nation was making “fools of US negotiators” and asserted that “only one thing will work” in dealing with Pyongyang.
The US President tweeted: “Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid hasn’t worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of US negotiators.
“Sorry, but only one thing will work!”
The US President also told reporters last week that the current state of world affairs “could be the calm before the storm”.
Mr Trump’s Pyongyang patience appears to be running out after the Republican took aim at his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has pushed for a diplomatic solution to World War Three fears.
In a recent Tweet, Mr Trump said: “I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful secretary of state, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man.”