Trump says he aims for meeting with Kim Jong Un in 2025

“I'd like to meet him this year... I look forward to meeting with Kim Jong Un in the appropriate future. I'd like to have a meeting. I got along great with him,” the president said.

Trump added that he and the North Korean leader became very friendly during his first term in office.

“We think we can do something in that regard,” Trump said, adding that he would like to help improve relations between the two Koreas.

According to Reuters, North Korea has not yet responded to requests to comment on the US president’s remarks.

It should be noted that Trump’s statements were made during a meeting with South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung, at the White House. The South Korean leader, in turn, expressed hope that the US president would succeed in improving relations between Seoul and Pyongyang.

“I hope you can bring peace to the Korean Peninsula, the only divided nation in the world, so that you can meet with Kim Jong Un, build a Trump World (real-estate complex) in North Korea so that I can play golf there, and so that you can truly play a role as a world-historical peacemaker,” Lee said.

Trump’s past meetings with Kim Jong Un

Between 2018 and 2019, Trump and the North Korean leader held three meetings and, as the US president put it, exchanged a series of wonderful letters.

In June 2019, Trump briefly entered North Korea from the demilitarized zone along the border with South Korea, becoming the first sitting US president to set foot in the country.

However, substantial progress on curbing North Korea’s nuclear program was not achieved. In March of this year, Trump acknowledged that North Korea is now a nuclear state.

In addition, Axios reported in April that the Trump administration was planning new negotiations with North Korea in response to its nuclear advancements.