President Donald J. Trump said that reaching out to North Korean leader Kim Jong -un, the possibility of relapating bromance diplomacy five years after the first round of negotiations. 。
“I like me and I have become friends with him,” said Trump in an interview with Fox News's host Sean Hannity that he would reach out to Kim again in his second term. Later, I said. “He is not a religious enthusiasm. He happens to be a smart man.”
Mr. Trump's comment on Thursday night has been the first time that he has expressed his intention to resume diplomacy with Kim since he was appointed on Monday. During his first term, Trump and Kim made a history when they held the first summit between them. However, their relationship protruded after three prominent meetings failed to make progress.
It is unknown how Kim is encouraged by the more powerful alliance with Russia and his military progress in his country. Analysts say that since Trump's last five years ago with Kim, North Korea's missile capabilities have been expanded and a large price can be demanded in order to make concessions to nuclear plans.
Mr. Trump expressed his interest in North Korea during the campaign, saying, “It's good to get along when someone has a lot of nuclear weapons.” A few hours after taking office, he told the reporters that Kim was “nuclear power” and was a long -standing transition from Washington to recognize North Korea.
Korean officials are a US alliance that suffered from a political crisis in Japan following the leader's bullet EACH, and is afraid that Trump will return to the Korean Peninsula on a diplomatic roller coaster. 。
During his first term, Trump and Kim first exchanged personal IN humiliation and threats of the nuclear war. After that, they shake hands and held three meetings between 2018 and 2019. At one point, Trump declared in a social media that it was no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea, and he fell in love with Kim.
However, these discussions have ended without an agreement on how to roll back North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, or the time when the United States should alleviate sanctions imposed on the country. Kim pledged not to engage in Washington again in dialogue, doubling in the construction and testing of nuclear missiles.
Currently, Korean analysts and officials fear that Trump may sign a contract with Kim, who abandons long -range missiles, instead of all nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions.
Mr. Trump's recent statement, who explained North Korea as a nuclear power, said that North Korea, who had collided with a long -standing agreement between North Korea and Seoul, is never accepted.
“We cannot recognize the status of North Korea's nuclear power,” said the Ministry of Defense in South Korea in a statement after Mr. Trump's comment.
Despite Mr. Trump's compliments about Kim, it was unknown whether the dictator would be a new courtship idea. After the collapse of the first round of the meeting, Kim defended a new “multi -polar” global order, signed a mutual defense agreement with Moscow last year, and estimated it as a weapon to support Russia in a war with Ukraine. I sent a human unit.
Despite being seriously injured in the war with Ukraine, North Korea was preparing to dispatch more troops to Russia on Friday.
China has long been the only major cushioning master during the United States -led international efforts to keep the military ambitions of North Korea and the administration. In return to support Russia in the war with Ukraine, Kim recruited Moscow as another major ally to protect his country from US pressure.
North Korea did not comment on Trump's elections or inauguration until Wednesday, when the state media posted two sentences.
However, the administration fired a missile from the east coast a few days before the inauguration ceremony. According to the Korean troops, we are preparing to launch more missiles, including a long -range ballistic missile that is enough to reach the American continent.
North Korea's state media reported on Friday that the national parliament had adopted a budget for the year this week to ensure significant acceleration of national defense abilities.
Hong Min, a senior analyst at the South Korean State Research Institute in Seoul, will wait for Kim to wait for the Labor Party meeting in June to respond to the overture of another parliament in September. I mentioned.
“He responds after measuring the Trump administration, intentions, and calculations behind the North Korean approach,” said Hong.