S.Korea's Lee leaves G7 w/ Trump's pen after talks about peace on the peninsula

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung left the G7 summit in France with the souvenir of a pen from U.S. President Donald Trump and the promise of a golf game after a dinner discussion he described as making progress over the issue of North Korea.



Lee, attending the summit in Evian-les-Bains as an invited partner, said on Thursday he had spoken at length with Trump during the leaders' dinner.



"We had an in-depth conversation for about 90 minutes about peace on the Korean peninsula and South Korea-U.S. relations, and made significant progress," Lee wrote on X.



The next day Trump handed Lee the pen he had been using to sign documents at the summit, a gesture that Lee suggested echoed their own first summit, when Trump received a pen Lee used.



Lee said Trump also talked over dinner about playing golf with him and first lady Kim Hea Kyung.