By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump saidon Tuesday that he hopes to meet with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea later this year, media reported.
Trump was spreaking to reporters at the White House during the outset of his meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, Trump said he maintains a “very good relationship” with Kim and looks forward to meeting him again, media reported.
“I get along with him really well. I think he has a country of great potential, tremendous potential,” Trump said.
Trump and Kim first met in Singapore in June 2018 during his first term in presidency marked the first-ever US-DPRK summit.
They met in Hanoi, Vietnam in February 2019, and later that June in the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom.
South Korean President Lee praised Trump’s interior design and diplomacy.
He said: “I hope you can bring peace to the Korean Peninsula, the only divided nation in the world, so that you can meet with Kim Jong Un, build a Trump World (real-estate complex) in North Korea so that I can play golf there, and so that you can truly play a role as a world-historical peacemaker.”
Lee referenced Trump’s past diplomacy with North Korea, suggested that Kim would not have advanced his nuclear capabilities if Trump had remained in off
