President Trump says 'we will have relations with North Korea'; it's a 'big asset' that he gets along with Kim

President Donald Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba astatine the White House Friday and said the U.S. volition person relations with the North Korean regime of dictator Kim Jong Un.

"We volition person relations with North Korea, with Kim Jong Un. I get on with them precise well," Trump told reporters alongside Ishiba.

Trump, who archetypal met Kim successful 2018 successful Singapore and became the archetypal sitting president to conscionable with the person of North Korea, is looking to physique disconnected his idiosyncratic diplomacy helium established with Kim during his archetypal term.

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President Donald Trump speaks during a quality league with Japan's Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, astatine the White House Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

"We had a bully relationship. And I deliberation it's a precise large plus for everybody that I bash get on with them," the president said. 

Trump met Kim again successful 2019 and became the archetypal president to measurement foot wrong North Korean territory from the demilitarized zone.

Trump said Japan would invited renewed dialog with North Korea due to the fact that relations betwixt Japan and North Korea stay tense since diplomatic relations person ne'er been established.

"And I tin archer you that Japan likes the thought due to the fact that their narration is not precise bully with him," Trump said.

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President Donald Trump met with Kim Jong Un successful Singapore successful June 2018 during his archetypal word arsenic president. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Ishiba said it's a affirmative improvement Trump and Kim met during Trump's archetypal term. And present that helium has returned to power, the U.S., Japan and its allies tin determination toward resolving issues with North Korea, including denuclearization.

"Japan and U.S. volition enactment unneurotic toward the implicit denuclearization of North Korea," Ishiba added.

Prime Minister Ishiba besides addressed a grievance involving the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea successful the 1970s and 1980s. Although North Korea released immoderate of the prisoners successful the aboriginal 2000s, Pyongyang ne'er provided Japan with immoderate mentation for the abduction of its citizens, and determination tin beryllium nary normalization of relations betwixt Japan and North Korea until the contented is resolved.

"And truthful our clip is limited," Ishiba warned.

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"So, I don't cognize if the president of the United States, if President Trump is capable to resoluteness this issue. We bash recognize that it's a Japan issue, archetypal and foremost. Having said that, we would emotion to proceed to cooperate with them," the premier curate added.