Trump Wants to See Kim

Meeting: South Korea Leader Fawns Over US Relations With Jong-un

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he hoped to meet North Korea's Kim Jong-un again, possibly this year, as he held White House talks with South Korea's dovish new leader that got off awkwardly.

Hours before President Lee Jae Myung arrived for his long-planned first visit to the White House, Trump took to social media to denounce what he said was a "Purge or Revolution" in South Korea, apparently over raids that involved churches.

Forty minutes into an Oval Office meeting in which Lee profusely praised Trump, the U.S. leader dismissed his own sharply worded rebuke, saying: "I'm sure it's a misunderstanding" as "there is a rumour going around".

Trump said he believed he was on the same page on North Korea as Lee, who supports diplomacy over confrontation.

Trump, who met Kim three times in his first term, hailed his relationship with the young totalitarian and said he knew him "better than anybody, almost, other than his sister".

"Someday I'll see him. I look forward to seeing him. He was very good with me," Trump told reporters, saying he hoped the talks would take place this year.