President Donald Trump said Monday he expects to meet again with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at some point,” reviving talk of diplomacy with Pyongyang as he prepared to host South Korea’s new president at the White House.
“I have very good relationships with Kim Jong Un, North Korea,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “In fact, someday I’ll see him. I look forward to seeing him. He was very good with me. We had two meetings, we had two summits. We got along great. I know him better than you do. I know him better than anybody, almost other than his sister.”
Trump and Kim met twice during his first term, including a 2019 sit-down in the heavily militarized Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, that briefly saw Trump cross into North Korea — the first time a U.S. president stepped onto its soil.
The former president’s comments came minutes before he welcomed South Korean President Lee Jae Myung for their first face-to-face meeting. Lee, a liberal who rose from child laborer to head of the Democratic Party, was elected in June after the dramatic ouster of conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Hours earlier, Trump questioned South Korea’s stability in a post on his Truth Social platform. “WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA? Seems like a Purge or Revolution. We can’t have that and do business there,” he wrote.
