{"id":226402,"date":"2019-08-11T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T05:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=226402"},"modified":"2019-08-11T01:51:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T05:51:15","slug":"trump-kim-wants-to-meet-again-apologized-for-missile-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/11\/trump-kim-wants-to-meet-again-apologized-for-missile-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Kim wants to meet again, apologized for missile tests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Donald J. Trump addresses his remarks prior to signing H.R. 1327; an act to permanently authorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Monday, July 29, 2019, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Photo<\/a>: realdonaldtrump\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. \u2014 President Donald Trump said Saturday that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wants to meet once again to \u201cstart negotiations\u201d after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises end. He also said Kim apologized for the flurry of recent short-range missile tests that has rattled U.S. allies in the region.<\/p>\n

Trump is tweeting more details from the \u201cbeautiful\u201d three-page letter he told reporters on Friday that he’d received from Kim. Trump, who is on vacation at his golf club in New Jersey, said Kim spent much of his letter complaining about \u201cthe ridiculous and expensive exercises,\u201d which North Korea sees as a threat.<\/p>\n

He said Kim offered him \u201ca small apology\u201d for the recent tests and assured him \u201cthat this testing would stop when the exercises end.\u201d North Korea on Saturday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, according to South Korea’s military \u2014 the fifth round of launches in less than three weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to seeing Kim Jong Un in the not too distant future!\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

The two leaders have met three times \u2014 in Singapore, Hanoi and at the Korean Demilitarized Zone \u2014 but critics say Trump has received few concessions in the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program in exchange for the meetings.<\/p>\n

At their second summit in Vietnam in February, Trump rejected Kim’s demand for widespread sanctions relief in exchange for dismantling the North’s main nuclear complex, a partial disarmament step.<\/p>\n

The U.S. and South Korea have scaled down their major military exercises since Trump and Kim’s first summit in June 2018. But the North insists even the downsized drills violate agreements between Kim and Trump and compel it to \u201cdevelop, test and deploy the powerful physical means essential for national defence.\u201d<\/p>\n

When they last met in June of this year, Trump and Kim agreed to resume working-level nuclear talks that have been stalled since February, but there have been no known meetings between the two sides since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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