Donald Trump will avoid giving North Korea and Kim Jong-Un a PR coup

The Korean border’s demilitarised zone (DMZ), which divides the North and South, is seen as one option, especially as an inter-Korean summit is due to take place there next month.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is scheduled to meet Kim at the Panmunjom Peace House on the southern side of the heavily-fortified DMZ, making it a credible venue.

If does travel to meet it would be the first time he has left the country since becoming its supreme leader in 2011 following the death of his father Kim Jong-il.

It seems unlikely the dictator would accept an invitation to visit Washington or President Trump’s estate in Florida, where President Xi Jinping of China has previously been a guest.

Experts said the prospect of a meeting between a sitting president and means officials are taking the secretive state’s nuclear ambitions seriously.

The most likely venue will be a neutral location, with China, Japan, South Korea or UN offices in Geneva or New York possible.

Christopher Hill, a former US ambassador to North Korea, said: “My advice would be the President should not journey to Pyongyang.

“Nor should he invite Kim Jong-un to Washington.”