The North Korean leader’s comments came days after President Trump said he would travel to South Korea in late October for a regional summit.

Kim said if the US ‘discards its delusional obsession with denuclearisation’ then ‘there is no reason we cannot meet it’.

Kim Jong Un also said he had ‘fond memories’ of Trump, in a speech to Pyongyang’s Supreme People’s Assembly.

Comments from North Korea’s leader come as South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung says he could accept a deal that sees the North retain its nuclear weapons

The North Korean leader’s comments came days after President Trump said he would travel to South Korea in late October for a regional summit.