by Ben Whedon
President Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters that he planned to meet with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un sometime this year.
“Yeah, I will,” Trump told reporters when asked if he planned to meet with Kim this year.
“The fact that I get along with him, that’s a good thing,” Trump added. “He has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons… I know Kim Jong Un very well and he’s gonna be fine.”
Trump’s comments follow the administration downscaling planned military exercises with South Korea, which he seemed to attribute to Seoul’s unwillingness to aid in the Iran war.
“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful, Trump said on Truth Social.
“Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises! While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, ‘No thanks!'” he added.
He later shared a meme of Kim calling him on the phone to confirm that relations between both countries were stable.
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Ben Whedon is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.Â
