President Donald Trump confirmed to reporters that he plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year, a highly unusual move for an American president, if not for Trump himself.
\n\nAsked whether he was expecting to meet with Kim this year, Trump responded, “Yeah, I will be.”
\n\nThe Wall Street Journal first reported that the president was pushing for a meeting with the North Korean leader, whom Trump previously met with three times, in 2018 and 2019.
\n\nThe U.S. does not have formal diplomatic relations with North Korea, and no other sitting presidents have met with the country’s supreme leaders. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton traveled to North Korea to meet with the country’s then-leaders, but those trips took place after they left office.
\n\nJust days ago, Trump ordered the U.S. military to downsize joint exercises with South Korea, citing in part his “very good relationship” with Kim.
\n\n“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…
Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/
