&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "Trump says North Korea ‘sort of a nuclear power’ as potential talks with Kim Jong Un loom")
US President Donald Trump on Friday (Oct 24) labelled North Korea a "sort of a nuclear power" as he left the United States for Asia. The trip, as per reports, could potentially include a meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. The US president was asked on board Air Force One whether he was open to North Korea's demand to be recognised as a nuclear state as a precondition for dialogue with Washington. To this, he evasively replied, "Well, I think they are sort of a nuclear power.
"When you say they have to be recognised as a nuclear power, well, they got a lot of nuclear weapons, I'll say that," he added.
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Trump-Kim meeting: All we know
Trump is due to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum in South Korea next week. Multiple US outlets have reported that officials have quietly explored the possibility of a Trump-Kim meeting — their first since 2019. The president has repeatedly said he hopes to see Kim again, hinting that renewed diplomacy could be on the table.
Kim, for his part, recently struck a conciliatory tone, saying he has "fond memories" of Trump and would be open to dialogue if the US abandoned what he called its "delusional" demand for complete denuclearisation.
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South Korea’s unification minister, Chung Dong-young, told reporters Friday that he saw a "considerable" chance the two leaders could meet during Trump’s visit. However, a senior US official, as per AFP, quickly tempered expectations, saying on a background call that such a meeting "is not on the schedule for this trip."
While an official announcement of the meeting has not been made by either nation, still, signs of preparation have fuelled speculation. South Korea and the United Nations Command have temporarily suspended tours of the Joint Security Area (JSA) — the symbolic border village in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) — from late October to early November.
