Donald J. Trump said that the first negotiations attracted the world’s attention, but they reached out to North Korean leader Kim Jong -un five years after almost no help in reducing Kim’s growing nuclear threats. He said he would raise the possibility of burning again. .
In an interview with Fox News host, Sean Haniti, President Trump said he would contact Kim again during his second term, “He liked me and I was well with him.” “He is not a religious enthusiastist. He is a smart person. ”
President Trump’s remarks, which aired on Thursday night, expressed their intention to resume diplomacy with Kim for the first time since Monday. During his first term, President Trump and Chairman Kim strictly speaked, in the first summit between the two countries in war. However, their relationships withered as the three -time talks did not make progress.
It is unclear how Kim, who has been courageous to strengthen his alliance with Russia and his military advancement, will respond to this offer. Analysts say that North Korea’s missile capacity has expanded since President Trump met with Kim five years ago, and if Kim yields a nuclear program, he can demand a greater price.
President Trump expressed his interest in North Korean leaders, saying, “It is good to stay between someone with a lot of nuclear weapons.” A few hours after his inauguration, he also told reporters that Kim was “nuclear power,” which has been free from the US for a long time refusing to recognize North Korea as a nuclear power.
Korean officials, the US allies, who have been in the domestic political crisis since the impeachment of the leader, have been concerned that President Trump’s return may be able to carry the Korean peninsula again in a diplomatic roller coaster.
President Trump and Chairman Kim first exchanged personal insults and nuclear war threats during their first term. Since then, the two have shaken and have three meetings from 2018 to 2019. At some point, President Trump declared that he was “falling in love with Kim,” he said in social media, saying, “There is no more nuclear threat in North Korea.”
However, the talks ended without agreement on how to withdraw North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs and when the United States should ease the sanctions imposed on North Korea. Kim vowed not to participate in the dialogue with the United States again, and doubled the production and test of a missile with nuclear capacity.
South Korean analysts and officials are now concerned that President Trump may have a negotiations with North Korea to give up long -range missiles, not nuclear weapons, in return for sanctions.
President Trump’s recent remarks, which described North Korea as a nuclear power, collided with the long -standing agreement between the United States and South Korea that North Korea should never be accepted as a nuclear power.
After President Trump’s remarks, the South Korean Defense Ministry said in a statement that “we cannot give North Korea a nuclear holding status.”
Despite Trump’s flattering remarks about Kim, it was unclear whether the dictator would accept a new courting idea. After the first meeting, Kim defended a new ‘multiple’ world order last year, signing a mutual defense agreement with Moscow last year and dispatching weapons and about 12,000 troops to help Russia in the war with Ukraine.
Our troops said Friday, despite the fact that North Korea had been greatly damaged in the war with Ukraine.
China has long been the only major buffer between the US -led international efforts to suppress the military ambitions of the North Korean regime and North Korea. In return for Russia in the war with Ukraine, Kim recruited Moscow as another major allies to protect his country from the pressure of the United States.
North Korea has not mentioned Trump’s election or inauguration until Wednesday, reported by the state media.
However, the regime fired a missile on the east coast a few days before his inauguration. According to the ROK military, they are preparing more missiles, including long -range ballistic missiles that can reach the US mainland, which tends to be the most annoying US Department of Defense officials.
North Korean state media reported last Friday that this year’s budget proposal was adopted this week to accelerate the significant change of defense power.
Hong -min, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute for Unification, said Kim is likely to wait for the June Labor Party meeting or another parliamentary meeting in order to cope with President Trump’s proposal.
Hong said, “We will respond to the seriousness, intentions, and calculations behind the Trump administration’s approach to North Korea.”
