President Donald Trump said Wednesday he expects to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, but Kim’s sister Kim Yo Jong disputed his claim that the leaders had recently communicated, highlighting conflicting accounts over renewed diplomacy
Trump And Kim Offer Conflicting Diplomatic Signals
Asked whether he expected another meeting with Kim in 2026, Trump replied, "Yeah, I will be." He said Monday that Kim responded to his outreach. Trump has repeatedly sought to revive personal diplomacy with Kim after their 2018 and 2019 summits failed to produce a denuclearization agreement.
Kim Yo Jong offered a different account. "There has been no communication between the leaders of North Korea and the U.S. that we are aware of," she said in a statement translated by South Korean outlet The Chosun Daily.
"I am not aware of it at all, and perhaps it may be the only thing I do not know as regards the foreign policy of our supreme leadership," she added, while saying the Trump-Kim relationship "is still excellent."
