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Trump wants to meet North Korea's Kim this year, he tells South Korea

Donald Trump aims to restart denuclearization talks with Kim Jong-un this year, leveraging their past summits despite current military tensions and stalled diplomacy.

  • On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said he would like to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un this year during a White House summit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.
  • Over the past month, Pyongyang has ruled out talks with Seoul and insists it will engage only if Washington drops denuclearization demands, stalling diplomacy since the 2018 Singapore summit.
  • Trump recalled the DMZ meeting, saying he met Kim Jong-un three times and became the first sitting US president on North Korean soil in June 2019, adding `But I loved it`.
  • South Korean President Lee Jae Myung encouraged President Donald Trump to leverage his rapport with Kim Jong Un, joking about a `Trump World` complex and golf in North Korea, while Pyongyang did not immediately respond.
  • Analysts note Kim's closer ties to Russia, including support in Ukraine, while the Biden administration resumed military exercises; senior US officials report closed-door talks on North Korea.
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Trump tells South Korean president he wants to meet Kim Jong Un

President Donald Trump is willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he told his South Korean counterpart on Monday when they discussed peace in the Korean Peninsula and Pyongyang’s nuclear weapon capabilities.

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US President Trump wants to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un this year. He said this at the White House during a meeting with South Korean President Lee. "I look forward to it." During his first term, Trump met with Kim three times: in Singapore, Hanoi, and finally on the border between North and South Korea. He was the first US president to set foot on North Korean soil. Even now, Trump looks back on this meeting with great pleasure,…

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