SWEDEN’S foreign minister has held what she called “good and constructive” talks with her North Korean counterpart amid growing speculation about a possible meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.

Margot Wallstrom refused to comment yesterday on whether she and North Korea’s Ri Yong Ho discussed a Trump-Kim meeting in brief comments as she left the Stockholm villa where the meeting took place.

The building is close to the embassies of South Korea and the US.

“We’ll see what happens next,” Wallstrom said.

Ri has not made any public comment during a visit to Stockholm that started late on Thursday.

He also held a brief meeting with Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven.

Wallstrom earlier said Sweden is hoping to “use our role and also our contacts”, but stressed that it is up to the countries concerned to decide “which way we are going”.

She said that “we value this opportunity to arrange a meeting”, although she did not specify what she meant.

The US president has agreed to meet the North Korean leader by May. So far, Pyongyang has yet to comment publicly on what it hopes to gain from the talks.

Sweden has been rumoured as a possible site for the summit, although a truce village on the South Korean side of the Demilitarised Zone between the Koreas is seen as more likely.

Sweden is one of the few Western countries with an embassy in North Korea, and it provides consular services for the US in the country.