The author analyses Korean policy of the Trump Administration, who announced the end of the era of «strategic patience» of his predecessor B. Obama and a firm intention to resolve the North Korean problem by any means. On the one hand, despite the initial US plans after 1945 to reduce the contingent of its troops in the South of the Korean peninsula, in fact the US has been maintaining a military presence in South Korea. The policy of the new US administration regarding North Korea become strongly militaristic in nature. On the other hand, the DPRK has been proceeding with a nuclear development program in order to answer to possible the American military aggression against them. At the same time, the beginning of 2018 year was marked by a sharp turn from confrontation to de-escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula. The efforts of the two Korean states created prerequisites for holding an inter-Korean summit, and a meeting of the heads of the United States and the DPRK is on the agenda now. Since, according to the official version of Washington, the need to build up the US military presence on the Korean Peninsula arose to help deter potential aggression from DPRK, now, when the tension between the ROK and the DPRK is essentially breaking, this argument is becoming less credible to the experts. The author examines the basic direction of possible development in the USA-DPRK relations, including how the parties will be able to make mutual concessions.