{"id":24071,"date":"2018-12-02T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24071"},"modified":"2018-12-02T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:23:11","slug":"moon-trump-says-likes-north-koreas-kim-will-fulfill-his-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24071","title":{"rendered":"Moon: Trump says likes North Korea’s Kim, will fulfill his wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0wants North Korean leader\u00a0Kim Jong Un<\/a>\u00a0to know that he likes him and will fulfill his wishes, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in has said, a day after meeting the US president at an economic summit in Argentina.<\/p>\n

Moon, who is hoping to host Kim soon on the first ever trip to Seoul by a North Korean leader as agreed earlier this year, said Trump had asked him to pass on a message.<\/p>\n

“The message is that President Trump has very favourable views toward Chairman Kim and he likes him,” Moon told reporters aboard a flight from Argentina to New Zealand, where he started a three-day state visit on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“As such, he asked me to tell Chairman Kim that he wants to implement the rest of their agreement together and he will fulfil Chairman Kim’s wishes.”<\/p>\n

Trump, who met Kim in Singapore in June, said on Saturday that he is likely to meet the North Korean leader for a second time in January or February, with three sites for their meeting under consideration.<\/p>\n

“We’re getting along very well. We have a good relationship,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his return from the G20 summit.<\/p>\n

Trump added that at some point he will invite Kim to the United States.<\/p>\n

In June, Trump and Kim opened up a face-to-face dialogue<\/a> after months of trading military threats and pointed barbs.<\/p>\n

The two leaders signed<\/a> a vaguely worded document on denuclearisation, but progress has since stalled as Washington and Pyongyang spar over the meaning of the document.<\/p>\n

North Korea<\/a> has taken few concrete steps to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was due to meet a top North Korean official in early November, but the meeting was abruptly put off<\/a>, with Pyongyang insisting that Washington ease sanctions.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Trump discussed the situation with South Korean President Moon Jae-in<\/a> on the sidelines of the G20 summit.<\/p>\n

The pair “reaffirmed their commitment to achieve the final, fully verified denuclearisation” of North Korea, Trump’s spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.<\/p>\n

They agreed on the need for “maintaining vigorous enforcement of existing sanctions to ensure North Korea understands that denuclearisation is the only path,” Sanders said.<\/p>\n

In the Argentine capital, Trump held separate bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a> on Saturday that primarily focused on trade, but the US leader told Xi he had agreed to work with him “100 percent” on North Korea.<\/p>\n

When asked on Saturday if he would ever host the North Korean leader in the United States, Trump replied: “At some point, yeah.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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