President Donald Trump will not visit the demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea during his upcoming Asia trip, officials say, avoiding what some experts fear would have been a highly provocative move during a time of increased tensions.

"There is not enough time in that schedule," a senior administration official said Tuesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity, adding that Trump instead will visit troops and their families at Camp Humphreys, the largest U.S. military base base in South Korea, roughly 55 miles south of Seoul.

Every president since Jimmy Carter has visited the DMZ except for George H. W. Bush. A Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Bill Clinton during his 1993 visit recounted to U.S. News in 2014 how incidents can quickly escalate.

The official pointed out that Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have all traveled there in recent weeks, so there was little need for Trump to do so.

"It's becoming a little cliche, frankly, and that's why he's going to be down at Humphreys," the official said.

Tensions between the U.S. and the North Korean regime of Kim Jong Un have worsened in recent years and during Trump's tenure due in part to Pyongyang's continued testing of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. Some experts became concerned Trump was provoking Kim through tweets calling the Hermit Kingdom leader "Little Rocket Man," and that Tillerson was "wasting his time" in attempting to engage directly with Pyongyang.

"It's important for U.S. presidents to show America's resolve by going to the DMZ and seeing the division first hand and how close the two sides are in proximity," Duyeon Kim, visiting senior fellow at the Korean Peninsula Future Forum in Seoul, told Stars & Stripes earlier this month. "But the danger and concern is Trump's tendency to go off script and make provocative and bombastic comments. The DMZ is certainly not the place to be in to aggravate the North."

Others cautioned against seeming to cancel a visit out of fear of provocation, saying it could set a bad precedent.