Trump: Kim wants to meet again, apologized for missile tests
US President Donald Trump said Saturday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had apologized over a recent spate of missile tests and wants to resume denuclearization talks as soon as US-South Korean military exercises end. "In a letter to me sent by Kim Jong Un, he stated, very nicely, that he would like to meet and start negotiations as soon as the joint U.S./South Korea joint exercise are over," Trump wrote.
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- Published Date: 03:27 | 10 August 2019
- Modified Date: 04:25 | 10 August 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump says North Korea's Kim Jong Un wants to meet once again to "start negotiations" after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises end.
He says he's looking "forward to seeing Kim Jong Un in the not too distant future!"
Trump is tweeting more details from the "beautiful" three-page letter he told reporters Friday he'd received.
Trump said Saturday from his New Jersey golf club that Kim spent much of his letter complaining about "the ridiculous and expensive exercises." He says that Kim offered him "a small apology" for the flurry of recent short-range missile tests that have rattled U.S. allies in the region and that Kim assured him they would stop when exercises end.
The two leaders have met three times: in Singapore, Hanoi and at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.