Trump wants a meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un
US President Donald Trump said he wanted to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and even when he was making new criticisms in the Asian ally, he was open to more trade talks with South Korea.
Lee Jae Myung, the new president of South Korea, came for talks a few hours after Trump’s criticism of the South Korean government in a social media mission.
Apparently, Lee’s conservative predecessor in December refers to discussing investigations into the attempt to impose martial law.
The statements gave a dark mood on high -betting talks for Lee, who took office in June after a election following the objection and abolition of Yoon Suk Yeol.
Trump invited Lee to the White House’s Oval Office, said the US-South Korean trade agreement is open to negotiating directions and who is open to those who meet.
Orum I want to have a meeting, Tr Trump said to journalists.
“I’m looking forward to meeting with Kim Jong-un in the appropriate future.”
Lee praised Trump and said that Trump hopes to interact with North Korea.
The South Korean economy is largely relying on the US, Washington welcomes its security with unity and nuclear deterrence.
Trump called Seoul a “money machine ıs that benefited from American military protection.
“Regardless of how this special incident was played, Trump showed how unreliable and capricious he was, regardless of how this special incident was played, Mason said Mason Richey, a professor of Hankuk University of Seoul.
The two countries have lower negotiations on trade, nuclear energy and military expenditures.
Many senior officials, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, ran to Washington at the weekend to solve the latest details.
According to a White House official, Trump planned to argue, “North Korea, defense stance, trade barriers, maritime security, American ship building, energy dominance and more”.
Analysts said that Lee’s goal of the meeting was to remove some of the most prickly problems, to leave a good impression, to connect with Trump personally and to avoid unpleasant surprises.
As a part of the summit preparations, Lee told journalists that the President read the “Trump: Art of the Agreement ında in memory of the President during his flight to Washington.
Under heavy pressure from the Trump administration, South Korean negotiators provided a last -minute agreement to avoid the hardest of the new US tariffs last month, but they should still withdraw the details of billions of dollars in the promised investments.
“There are many important issues in the field of security,” Lee’s biggest policy assistant Kim Yong-Beom said last week.
“Our location is that trade is already completed last time. We hope that special application plans for trade will never be included in the summit or at least should be kept simple if discussed.”
Lee, who came to Washington on Sunday, will emphasize some of South Korea’s expected investments when he visits a shipyard in Philadelphia, owned by the Hanwha group after the summit.
Cooperation to assist the US shipbuilding sector is part of the wide tariff agreement between countries.
Trump is expected to put pressure on Lee to spend more defenses, including billions of dollars more, including billions of dollars in the maintenance of 28,500 American soldiers in South Korea.
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