Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in his Atlanta
rally on Wednesday June 15th stated that he will welcome North Korean
dictator Kim Jong-Un to the U.S for Nuclear talks if he becomes
president.
If he came here, I would accept him,” Trump said during the rally. “But I
wouldn’t give him a state dinner like China, or all these other nations
who are ripping us off.”
“It’s opening a dialogue, We shouldn’t be having state dinners at all,
he continued. We should be eating a hamburger on a conference table and
making better deals. I’m only going to make a good deal,”
Denigrating his likely general election opponent Hillary Clinton, a
former secretary of state, as “a rank amateur” at the negotiating table.
Trump said he would talk to Kim even if there was a 10 percent or a 20
percent chance that ‘I can talk him out of those damn nukes.’
This isn’t the first time Trump has suggested that he would talk with
Kim. In a May interview with Reuters, Trump proposed that he would meet
with Kim.
“It is up to the decision of my Supreme Leader whether he decides to
meet or not, but I think his (Trump’s) idea or talk is nonsense,” So Se
Pyong, North Korea’s ambassador to the UN, told Reuters. “It’s for
utilization of the presidential election, that’s all. A kind of a
propaganda or advertisement. This is useless, just a gesture for the
presidential election.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed that the US should renegotiate defense
treaties with Japan and South Korea, which allow the US to maintain
bases in their territories in exchange for protection in the event that
either country is attacked. Trump has also advocated for China to assert
pressure on North Korea to back off its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
“It’s something I’ve been talking about for a long time. You have this
madman over there who probably would use [nuclear weapons],” Trump said
of the North Korean dictator during an interview in January. And nobody
talks to him, other than, of course, Dennis Rodman. That’s about it.”
The United States and North Korea haven’t been on good terms ever since
North Korea refused to stop it’s Nuclear programs as military officials
feel North Korea possess the ability to place nuclear weapons on its No
Dong medium-range missiles, and a preliminary ability to attack the
continental United States with a missile.
Source: Wall Street Journal / CNN