North Korea's Kim Open to US Talks, Has 'Fond Memories' of Trump
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he has "fond memories" of U.S. President Donald Trump and is open to future talks with the United States — if he can keep his nukes.
Kim met Trump three times for high-profile summits during Trump's first term, before talks collapsed in Hanoi in 2019 over what concessions Pyongyang was prepared to make on its nuclear arsenal.
The U.S. demand that Kim give up his banned weapons has long been a sticking point between the two countries, with Pyongyang under successive rafts of U.N. sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs.
"If the United States discards its delusional obsession with denuclearisation and, based on recognising reality, truly wishes for peaceful coexistence with us, then there is no reason we cannot meet it," Kim said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
"I still personally hold fond memories of the current U.S. president, Trump," Kim added, in a wide-ranging speech to the country's rubber-stamp parliament.
Since the failed 2019 summit, North Korea has repeatedly said it will never give up its nuclear weapons and declared itself an "irreversible" nuclear state.
Kim met Trump three times for high-profile summits during Trump's first term, before talks collapsed in Hanoi in 2019 over what concessions Pyongyang was prepared to make on its nuclear arsenal.
The U.S. demand that Kim give up his banned weapons has long been a sticking point between the two countries, with Pyongyang under successive rafts of U.N. sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs.
"If the United States discards its delusional obsession with denuclearisation and, based on recognising reality, truly wishes for peaceful coexistence with us, then there is no reason we cannot meet it," Kim said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
"I still personally hold fond memories of the current U.S. president, Trump," Kim added, in a wide-ranging speech to the country's rubber-stamp parliament.
Since the failed 2019 summit, North Korea has repeatedly said it will never give up its nuclear weapons and declared itself an "irreversible" nuclear state.
Kim met Trump three times for high-profile summits during Trump's first term, before talks collapsed in Hanoi in 2019 over what concessions Pyongyang was prepared to make on its nuclear arsenal.
The U.S. demand that Kim give up his banned weapons has long been a sticking point between the two countries, with Pyongyang under successive rafts of U.N. sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs.
"If the United States discards its delusional obsession with denuclearisation and, based on recognising reality, truly wishes for peaceful coexistence with us, then there is no reason we cannot meet it," Kim said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
"I still personally hold fond memories of the current U.S. president, Trump," Kim added, in a wide-ranging speech to the country's rubber-stamp parliament.
Since the failed 2019 summit, North Korea has repeatedly said it will never give up its nuclear weapons and declared itself an "irreversible" nuclear state.
Trump is expected to visit South Korea next month, when the country hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) in its southern city of Gyeongju.
"The timing of the remarks, just ahead of Trump's trip to South Korea for the APEC summit, appears calculated," said Lim Eul-chul at South Korea's Kyungnam University.
"It hinted at the possibility of a surprise summit, while also playing to Trump's well-known yearning for a Nobel Prize."
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