Trump Open to Another Meeting With North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

President Donald Trump hinted Monday that he’s open to a fourth historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, signaling a potential diplomatic overture as he wraps up a high-stakes Asia tour focused on trade, security, and strategic realignment.

“I’d love to meet with him if he’d like to meet,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route from Japan. “I got along great with Kim Jong Un. I liked him. He liked me. If he wants to meet, I’ll be in South Korea.”

The former president made clear that while no formal plans are in place, the door is wide open and the message is unmistakable. Trump is positioning himself, once again, as the only American leader capable of managing both diplomacy and deterrence on the Korean Peninsula.

During his first term, Trump became the first U.S. president to cross into North Korea, holding a landmark meeting with Kim in the DMZ. Their summit broke decades of standoff and escalated negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear arsenal something no previous administration had achieved.

Despite Washington’s official calls for denuclearization, Trump managed to forge an unprecedented dialogue even while keeping maximum pressure via sanctions.

“Well, we have sanctions. It’s pretty big,” Trump said Monday. “I would love to see him… if he even gets this message.”

Kim reportedly said in September that he would only meet the U.S. again if it “drops its hollow obsession with denuclearization.” That comment came just weeks before Kim appeared alongside Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping at a massive Chinese military parade fueling concerns of an emerging anti-American authoritarian axis.

Trump responded pointedly on Truth Social, saying: “Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America.”

Trump’s openness to a new meeting comes as U.S. officials finalize major trade agreements with South Korea. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed Monday that the framework of a deal is in place, while U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the focus is on dismantling non-tariff barriers that have long hampered American industry.

South Korea has also agreed to heavily invest in U.S. shipbuilding, an industry Trump says “we should have never lost years ago.”

“We were number one,” Trump added. “We’re very much involved in getting the shipbuilding going again.”

Pairing economic momentum with potential diplomatic engagement in Pyongyang is classic Trump leveraging strength, not surrender, to advance America’s strategic interests.

While Trump keeps the pressure on adversaries and the deals flowing with allies, Joe Biden has remained largely disengaged on North Korea neither securing high-level talks nor meaningful progress.

Biden’s failure to keep lines of communication open has left a vacuum quickly filled by China and Russia, both now openly embracing the Hermit Kingdom.

Meanwhile, Trump, from the campaign trail and the diplomatic stage, is showing Americans and the world what America First foreign policy really looks like: tough, principled, and effective.

If Kim does respond to Trump’s overture and history says he might the world may once again witness a diplomatic breakthrough that only Donald J. Trump could deliver.

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