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South China Morning Post
30-06-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Trump touts ties with North Korea's Kim as Seoul pushes for tariff resolution
US President Donald Trump has said he will 'get the conflict solved with North Korea', amid trade negotiations with South Korea that look set to go right down to the wire. At an Oval Office event on Friday where he highlighted his professed efforts to resolve global conflicts, Trump was asked whether he had written a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un , as was reported this month Trump did not directly answer the question, but said: 'I've had a good relationship with Kim Jong-un and get along with him, really great. So we'll see what happens.' 'Somebody's saying there's a potential conflict, I think we'll work it out,' Trump said. 'If there is, it wouldn't involve us.' Seoul-based NK News, a website that monitors North Korea , reported this month that North Korea's delegation at the United Nations in New York had repeatedly refused to accept a letter from Trump to Kim. Somebody's saying there's a potential conflict, I think we'll work it out US President Donald Trump on North Korea Trump and Kim held three summits during Trump's 2017-2021 first term and exchanged a number of letters that Trump called 'beautiful' before the unprecedented diplomatic effort broke down over US demands that Kim give up his nuclear weapons.
Al Arabiya
28-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
US President Trump says he will ‘get the conflict solved with North Korea'
US President Donald Trump on Friday said he will 'get the conflict solved with North Korea.' At an Oval Office event where he highlighted his efforts to resolve global conflicts, Trump was asked whether he had written a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as was reported this month. Trump did not directly answer the question, but said: 'I've had a good relationship with Kim Jong Un and get along with him, really great. So we'll see what happens. 'Somebody's saying there's a potential conflict, I think we'll work it out,' Trump said. 'If there is, it wouldn't involve us.' Seoul-based NK News, a website that monitors North Korea, reported this month that North Korea's delegation at the United Nations in New York had repeatedly refused to accept a letter from Trump to Kim. Trump and Kim held three summits during Trump's 2017-2021 first term and exchanged a number of letters that Trump called 'beautiful,' before the unprecedented diplomatic effort broke down over US demands that Kim give up his nuclear weapons. In his second term Trump has acknowledged that North Korea is a 'nuclear power.' The White House said on June 11 that Trump would welcome communications again with Kim, while not confirming that any letter was sent. North Korea has shown no interest in returning to talks since the breakdown of Trump's diplomacy in 2019. It has, instead, significantly expanded its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, and developed close ties with Russia through direct support for Moscow's war in Ukraine, to which Pyongyang has provided both troops and weaponry.
South China Morning Post
17-06-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Hanoi hangover: why North Korea's Kim snubs Trump's advances for Russia's embrace
Trump has signalled fresh interest in direct engagement with North Korea, with the White House confirming last week that 'the president remains receptive to correspondence with Kim Jong-un' following reports that Trump had sent another letter to Pyongyang – which North Korean officials declined to accept. But analysts say Kim is increasingly unwilling to risk another high-profile encounter, citing lingering scepticism after the collapse of the 2019 Hanoi summit, which damaged his domestic standing and deepened distrust of Washington's intentions. Instead, North Korea appears focused on strengthening its military capabilities and bolstering internal stability, while pursuing what Hong Min, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification, describes as 'peaceful but cold coexistence' with South Korea Trump and Kim at the start of the historic first US-North Korea summit in Singapore in June 2018. Trump has said he remains receptive to talks with Kim. Photo: AFP 'There is little possibility of the North returning to talks in the foreseeable future, as Washington has yet to present any concrete policy towards Pyongyang,' Hong told This Week in Asia.
Al Jazeera
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Trump open to dialogue with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, White House says
United States President Donald Trump is 'receptive' to dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the White House has said, after a South Korea-based news site reported that Pyongyang repeatedly rebuffed Trump's outreach efforts. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that Trump would like to build on the 'progress' made during his 2018 summit with Kim. The summit in Singapore marked the first-ever meeting between a sitting US president and the leader of North Korea, which has been ruled by the Kim dynasty for nearly eight decades. While historic, the summit, which was followed by meetings in Vietnam and at the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea, failed to achieve Washington's goal of halting the advance of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programmes. 'The president remains receptive to correspondence with Kim Jong Un,' Leavitt told reporters. 'As for specific correspondence, I will leave that to the president to answer,' Leavitt added. Leavitt's remarks came in response to a question about a report in NK News that said North Korean diplomats in New York had repeatedly refused to accept a letter from Trump to Kim. Trump's letter was aimed at 'reopening communication channels between Washington and Pyongyang', Seoul-based NK News reported, citing an 'informed high-level source'. Trump's reported outreach comes as South Korea's newly elected president, Lee Jae-myung, is leading Seoul to adopt a more reconciliatory posture towards Pyongyang. On Wednesday, South Korea switched off loudspeakers broadcasting K-pop and other propaganda across the inter-Korean border in one of the first moves by Lee's administration to lower tensions between the sides. South Korea's Ministry of National Defence said the move would help to 'restore trust in inter-Korean relations' and 'promote peace on the Korean Peninsula'. North and South Korea remain technically at war after hostilities in the 1950-1953 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
NHK
12-06-2025
- Politics
- NHK
White House: Trump receptive to correspondence with North Korean leader Kim
A White House spokesperson says US President Donald Trump "remains receptive" to correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made the remark when she was questioned about a report published by NK News, a news website that focuses on North Korea. The report said North Korean diplomats at Pyongyang's UN mission in New York had refused to accept a letter from Trump that was addressed to Kim. In response to a question from the media, Leavitt said, "The president remains receptive to correspondence with Kim Jong Un." She added that Trump would "like to see the progress that was made" at the summit in Singapore in 2018 during his first term. She also said, "As for specific correspondence, I'll leave that to the president to answer." This comes as Trump is believed to be considering the possibility of holding a summit with the North Korean leader. Trump met with Kim three times during his first term. Some observers say holding a meeting will be more difficult now, as Pyongyang has been strengthening its ties with Moscow and advancing its nuclear and missile development programs.
