Washington.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump, assured this Monday that the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, responded to the messages to engage in dialogue that he has sent him and that the exchanges are “very positive”.
When asked in the Oval Office why Kim has not responded publicly after the message he posted on Sunday on social media informing that the Pentagon will reduce the scale of military maneuvers between Seoul and Washington because they send an inappropriate message to a country that he considered has been “respectful” during his terms, Trump simply said that the North Korean leader “has done so,” without offering further details.
When asked how those exchanges are going, the tycoon simply added that they are “very positive”.
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Trump met with Kim on three occasions to try to reach an agreement to denuclearize the peninsula, but he abruptly abandoned the negotiations after considering Pyongyang’s offer insufficient, something that, according to experts, may have greatly increased the distrust of the North Korean regime, which is now very close to Russia.
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During his first term (2017-2021), Trump even ordered the suspension of Seoul and Washington’s summer military maneuvers to favor dialogue with Pyongyang.
On Sunday, the Republican also stressed in his message that Seoul had refused to support Washington in its war to “denuclearize” Iran, something he pointed out again today.
The U.S. leader also asserted that South Korea managed to convince the Joe Biden Administration (which succeeded him between 2021 and 2025 after his first term) to lower the increase in its contribution to the shared military spending between both allies.
“They convinced Biden that I was probably a bad person, and they shouldn’t have done that,” Trump asserted.
When asked about accusations that under his administration Washington appears closer to countries like North Korea, technically still at war with the U.S. and South Korea, than with its traditional allies, the president said that his decision actually makes the Korean peninsula a “safer” place and that Kim has always “treated him with respect” and understands him well.
