The decision to skip a visit to the demilitarised zone (DMZ), a common stop for visiting residents and other high-profile US officials, comes at a time of high tensions with Kim Jong-un’s secretive state.
Time constraints are said to be the reason for the decision not to go to the world’s most dangerous flashpoint.
An official said: “The president is not going to visit the DMZ, there is not enough time in the schedule.”
Other officials downplayed the importance decision, saying it was becoming a “cliche”.
A senior administration official said: “We just had Secretary Mattis there last week, we had Vice-President Pence there earlier this year.
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“It’s becoming a little bit of a cliche, frankly.”
President Donald Trump will instead visit Camp Humphreys, which sits south of Seoul.
He will depart for South East Asia for 12 days on Friday, where he will visit five different nations.
A visit by any US leader to the border, heavily militarised with electric fences, minefields and anti-tank barriers, is often seen as a show of solidarity in the face of threats from North Korea.
But the senior administration official said only a “minority” of US presidents had visited the tense frontier.
However, since Ronald Reagan visited in 1983, only George HW Bush has failed to make a visit.
President Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 8, where the pair will hope to discuss how Beijing is set to tackle the growing threat from the North.
A US official added: “The Chinese have done a great deal.
“They’ve done more than I think many expected they would. And the US is working more closely with China on the North Korea problem than ever.
“That said, there is clearly more that China could do.”
The US and North Korea remain locked in a war of bitter words as the nations remain on the brink of World War 3 over North Korea’s growing nuclear programme.