Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump and South Korea
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President Trump said Monday he would “love to meet” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his trip to Asia this week. “I’d love to meet with him if he’d like to meet. I got
Mr Trump embarked on a five-day tour of Asia on Friday night, his first of the term, with stops in Malaysia and Japan, before concluding the trip in South Korea with a face-to-face meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping aimed at de-escalating the trade war.
President Donald Trump made a public plea to Kim Jong Un for an invite for further talks at the beginning of his trip to Asia but admitted on the way home that the they had not even managed to speak on the phone.
President Trump told reporters late Friday that he would “100 percent” be open to meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his trip to Asia. “Well, I would if he would
The North Korean leader has grown closer to Moscow since he and Trump met in 2019 and did not respond to the U.S. president’s public push for a meeting.
Colbert jibed that while Trump claimed he “hadn't thought” about meeting the dictator during his Asia trip, he couldn’t help but keep talking about it.