Reports: Donald Trump to meet with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un after trashing him for months
Reports are breaking that President Donald Trump will announce that he is planning to meet with North Korea’s controversial leader Kim Jong-un as soon as May.
This announcement comes on the heels of the two leaders exchanging nasty barbs with one another for months.
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has invited President Trump to meet for negotiations over its nuclear program, an audacious diplomatic overture that would bring together two strong-willed, idiosyncratic leaders who have traded threats of war.
The South Korean official, Chung Eui-yong, who conveyed the invitation told reporters that Mr. Trump had accepted it and would meet with Mr. Kim by May.
For Mr. Trump, a meeting with Mr. Kim, a leader he has derided as “Little Rocket Man,” is a breathtaking gamble. No sitting American president has ever met a North Korean leader, and Mr. Trump himself had ruled out direct talks unless North Korea takes measurable steps toward relinquishing its nuclear arsenal.
War of tweets
Last year President Donald Trump took to Twitter to trade barbs with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un several times.
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.’ Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” Trump tweeted.
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The tweet from Donald Trump came after Kim’s message on Monday in which he warned the United States about North Korea’s nuclear capabilities.
“The entire mainland of the US is within the range of our nuclear weapons and the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office. They should accurately be aware that this is not a threat but a reality,” Kim said.
Kim also seemed to suggest during the address that he would be willing to work agreeably with South Korea, which marks a significant departure from the way North and South Korea usually interact.
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Donald Trump addressed that on Twitter as well, tweeting, “Sanctions and ‘other’ pressures are beginning to have a big impact on North Korea. Soldiers are dangerously fleeing to South Korea. Rocket man now wants to talk to South Korea for first time. Perhaps that is good news, perhaps not – we will see!”
Trump has often referred to Kim as “Little Rocket Man.”
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At one point, Trump even called Kim “short and fat” after Kim called him a “dotard.”
“Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat?’ Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!” Trump tweeted.
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