US President Donald Trump signaled his determination Friday to resume denuclearization talks with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, dismissing concerns that Pyongyang’s newest tests of powerful short-range missiles pose a regional threat.
While other US officials called the launches “provocations,” Trump said he agreed with the North Korean leader and was hoping to meet him again, with talks having been frozen for months. “As you know, I’ve never liked it either. I’ve never been a fan. And you know why? I don’t like paying for it.”It was a generous response to Kim, whose nuclear-armed government called the missile launches a “solemn warning” over the joint war games that began this week.
“South Korea and Japan are fighting all the time,” he said. “They have to get along with each other. If they don’t get along, what are we doing?”Trump has appeared determined to secure a denuclearization agreement with North Korea ahead of the November 2020 US presidential elections despite faltering talks since he first met Kim in a historic ice-breaking summit in Singapore in June 2018.
Yet even after their abortive second summit in Hanoi in February, Trump has been loath to criticize the North Korean leader.
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