He has said he would be prepared to go to Pyongyang "if the conditions are right".
Trump told Reuters in an interview last month major conflict with North Korea was possible though he would prefer a diplomatic outcome.
"Creating the Korea Mission Center allows us to more purposefully integrate and direct CIA efforts against the serious threats to the United States and its allies emanating from North Korea", said CIA Director Mike Pompeo in a statement.
The Prime Minister called Moon Jae-in to congratulate him on his election victory and to discuss the crisis around North Korea's nuclear weapons test programme.
Moon began his duties earlier in the day by receiving a briefing about North Korea from Army Gen. Final results show Mr Moon took 41.1% of the vote on Tuesday, while conservative candidate Hong Joon-pyo took 25.5%.
It said South Korea should end annual military exercises with the US and prohibit Seoul activists from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.
The US said the THAAD deployment was aimed at countering any missile attack by North Korea against the South, Japan and the US.
North Korea is highly sensitive to the propaganda activities that aim to help ordinary North Koreans know the truth about its repressive regime.
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North Korea claims the primary suspect is a man it has identified only by the ubiquitous surname "Kim".
Addressing the nation after taking the oath of office on Wednesday, May 10, 2017, South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed to eventually move out of the Blue House, where every modern South Korean president has lived and worked since the end of World War II.
Park, who also served as co-chairman of Moon's presidential campaign team, is expected to meet Chinese officials on the sidelines of the forum to discuss the ways to fix relations, the official told Yonhap.
Xi told Moon South Korea and China should respect each other's concerns, set aside differences, seek common ground and handle disputes appropriately, China's foreign ministry said in a statement.
The State Department issued reports this week warning Americans not to travel to North Korea, where the regime in Pyongyang is stepping up detentions and military provocations.
During Thursday's call, Xi reaffirmed China's opposition to the THAAD deployment, Moon's office said.
Hwang Woo-yea, the education minister under Ms Park, said that they were meant to teach "the proud history of South Korea, which has achieved both democratisation and industrialisation in the shortest time in the world history".
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