Donald Trump says he hopes to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un 'this year'

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Donald Trump says he hopes to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un 'this year'  "I have a great relationship with Kim Jong-un. I hope it stays that way, I think it will," Trump told reporters at a meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/08/26/donald-trump-says-he-hopes-to-meet-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-as-soon-as-this-year  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump says he would like to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as soon as this year.

00:07Trump made the remark on Monday during a meeting with South Korea's new president Lee Jae-myung.

00:14Lee encouraged Trump to continue to help with Korean peace efforts and even proposed the idea of a Trump Tower in Pyongyang.

00:30So, I hope you can win the role of the world and the world will be a maker of the world.

00:39Well, thank you very much. It's an honor to be with you.

00:42I will say that Kim Jong-un and I had a very good relationship, as you remember, and still do.

00:49And we'll have talks. He'd like to meet with me.

00:54He didn't want to meet with Biden because he had no respect for Biden.

00:58But we look forward to meeting with him and we'll make relations better.

01:03Before he met with Lee, Trump took to social media on Monday and threatened not to do business with Seoul

01:09because of a, quote, purge or revolution that he claimed was taking place in the country.

01:15However, any tensions between the two quickly disappeared after Lee showered the U.S. president with praise.

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