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North Korea's Kim ‘open to US talks’
The Mercury
|September 23, 2025
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he has “fond memories” of US President Donald Trump and is open to future talks with the US - if he can keep his nukes.
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Kim met Trump three times for high-profile summits during Trump’s first term, before talks collapsed in Hanoi in 2019 over what concessions Pyongyang was prepared to make on its nuclear arsenal.
The US demand that Kim give up his banned weapons has long been a sticking point between the two countries, with Pyongyang under successive rafts of UN sanctions over its nuclear and missile programmes.
“If the US discards its delusional obsession with denuclearisation and, based on recognising reality, truh wishes for peaceful coexistence witl us, then there is no reason we cannot meet it? Kim said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
This story is from the September 23, 2025 edition of The Mercury.
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