Trump says he'll meet Kim Jong Un 'sometime' earlier than South Korea summit

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President Donald Trump touted his relationship with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un and stated the 2 would meet "sometime" — simply earlier than a summit on the White Home with South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung.

Throughout Trump’s first time period in workplace, the president met with Kim on a number of events — together with in Singapore in 2018, after which twice in 2019 in Vietnam and inside North Korea — for denuclearization talks.

"I've superb relationships with Kim Jong UN, North Korea," Trump instructed reporters on the White Home Monday. "I imply, lots of people would say, oh, that is horrible. No, it is good. In actual fact, sometime I will see him. I look ahead to seeing him. He was superb with me. We had two assembly — we had two summits. We acquired alongside nice."

WHITE HOUSE RESPONDS TO ‘ROCKET MAN’ AND NORTH KOREA'S THREATS OVER DENUCLEARIZATION

President Donald Trump shakes fingers with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un on the Capella resort on Sentosa Island June 12, 2018, in Singapore. (Evan Vucci/The Related Press)

"I do know him higher than you do," Trump stated. "I do know him higher than anyone nearly, apart from his sister. His sister is aware of him fairly effectively. No, I do know him effectively. And I acquired together with him. , I am not imagined to say I actually like him quite a bit as a result of if I try this, I get killed within the faux information media. However I acquired together with him very effectively."

Denuclearization talks with Kim crumbled throughout Trump’s first administration when the president refused to get on board with Kim’s request for sanctions reduction, in change for shuttering North Korea’s main nuclear advanced.

Whereas the present Trump administration has signaled ongoing curiosity in renewing denuclearization talks with North Korea, Kim’s sister Kim Yo Jong stated in July that strain from the White Home for North Korea to denuclearize can be interpreted as "nothing however a mockery."

TRUMP REMAINS 'RECEPTIVE' TO DIALOGUE WITH KIM JONG UN DESPITE REPORTED LETTER SNUB

Kim Yo Jong stated in July that strain from the White Home for North Korea to denuclearize can be interpreted as "nothing however a mockery." (Jorge Silva/Pool Picture by way of AP, File)

"The popularity of the irreversible place of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state and the laborious undeniable fact that its capabilities and geopolitical setting have radically modified must be a prerequisite for predicting and considering the whole lot sooner or later," Kim Yo Jong stated in a press release in July revealed by the North Korean state information company KCNA.

In the meantime, Trump additionally took a shot at ally South Korea hours earlier than Lee’s scheduled arrival on the White Home — and weeks after the 2 agreed to a commerce deal.

NORTH KOREA BREAKS SILENCE ON TRUMP'S RETURN, SENDS MESSAGE FROM 'ROCKET MAN'

President Donald Trump and North Korean chief Kim Jong Un take a stroll after their first assembly on the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi resort, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (Evan Vucci/The Related Press)

"WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA? Looks like a Purge or Revolution. We will’t have that and do enterprise there," Trump stated in a social media publish on Monday morning.

Trump instructed reporters Monday morning his statements stemmed from media stories about raids on church buildings and on Osan Air Base in July. He instructed reporters he wasn’t certain how correct the media stories had been, however that he’d query Lee on the matter as a result of he wouldn’t "stand for that."