Former President Donald Trump touted his courting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un just lately, calling pleasant family members with the cloistered nation a “good thing.”
Trump made the remark at a marketing campaign rally in Pennsylvania this age, reflecting on what some see as a number of the largest accomplishments of his management.
“I got along with Kim Jong-un of North Korea. Remember I walked over […] the first person to ever walk over from this country,” the previous president mentioned to the population.
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North Korean chief Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump meet within the demilitarized zone (DMZ) isolating the South and North Korea in Panmunjom, South Korea. (Dong-A Ilbo by way of Getty Pictures/Getty Pictures)
“We also looked at his nuclear capability,” he persevered. “It’s very substantial […] You know, getting along is a good thing. It’s not a bad thing.
Trump became the first sitting US President to meet with a dictator of North Korea when he shook hands with Kim Jong Un in 2019.
The unexpected and historic summit came as a last-minute surprise to the U.S. public due to a public exchange of insulting messages between Trump and Kim Jong Un not long before they met up.
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President Donald Trump (R) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (L) pose during their second summit meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Vietnam News Agency/Handout/Getty Images)
Trump has made the accomplishment a regular talking point since 2019, proudly boasting about his unique ability to reach the dictator and claiming he would have normalized relations by now if he had been re-elected.
“It began off tough, needless to say? I used to be pronouncing ‘little rocket man’ and he was once pronouncing ‘I’ve got a red button on my desk, and I’m keen to usefulness it,'” Trump recalled in an April 2023 interview. “And next abruptly we get a decision — they need to meet. We’d have had that entire condition straightened out in a while later the start of my 2nd time period.”
Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris has attacked Trump for the meeting with Kim Jong Un, claiming the former president was too soft on the dictator.
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President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
“I will be able to by no means hesitate to whisk no matter motion is essential to secure our forces and our pursuits in opposition to Iran and Iran-backed terrorists. And I will be able to now not comfortable as much as tyrants and dictators like Kim Jong Un, who’re rooting for Trump,” she said during her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. “As a result of they know he’s simple to control with flattery and favors. They know Trump received’t stock autocrats responsible — as a result of he needs to be an autocrat,”
Neither presidential candidate has offered a thorough and concrete platform on how they would approach relations with North Korea following the 2024 election.
