'I get along with him': Trump says he'll meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un
In an unusual move, Trump also cited a specific number of warheads that he said North Korea holds.
President Donald Trump announced his intention to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, stating that North Korea possesses 57 very powerful nuclear weapons. He posted this information on a social media platform, asserting that the message sent to North Korea was totally inappropriate and hostile, given the country's unthreatening and respectful behavior towards the United States during Trump's presidency.
Notably, Kim Jong-un had previously called Trump a mentally deranged US dotard and threatened to use a nuclear button on his desk.
Despite the tense relationship between the two leaders, they managed to turn their hostility into face-to-face meetings, including a brief encounter at the demilitarized zone between the Koreas, marking Trump as the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korean territory. However, the relationship between Trump and Kim cooled after these initial meetings in 2018 and 2019.
During a tour of the helipad he is constructing on the White House's historic south lawn, Trump revealed that he knows Kim Jong-un well and believes they will get along well, as long as he remains president. Trump also expressed his disagreement with North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons, stating that if he were president, he would not have allowed it. Still, Trump acknowledged the presence of these weapons, emphasizing that it is a very good thing that he gets along with Kim, rather than a bad thing.
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