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\nSouth Korea\u2019s President says US President Donald Trump told him he had a \u201cvery friendly view\u201d of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and wanted to grant his wishes if he denuclearised.<\/p>\n
North Korea has sought security guarantees from the US and relief from international sanctions. President Moon Jae-in\u2019s office quoted Moon as saying that Trump asked him to convey those messages to the North Korean leader if he visited Seoul this year as he promised.<\/p>\n
Moon spoke to reporters on Saturday aboard his presidential plane en route to New Zealand from Argentina, where he met Trump on the sidelines of a Group of 20 Nations summit.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump asked me to forward to these messages; he has a very friendly view of Chairman Kim Jong Un and likes him. He hopes to fully carry out the remaining agreements (from their June summit in Singapore) together with him so that he will make Chairman Kim Jong Un get what he wants,\u201d Moon said.<\/p>\n
Moon said he and Trump agreed during their meeting that Kim\u2019s trip to Seoul would play a \u201cvery positive role\u201d in US-North Korea nuclear diplomacy.<\/p>\n
Moon said it\u2019s still unclear whether Kim would visit Seoul by the end of this year, and that it\u2019s up to the North Korean leader.<\/p>\n
Moon, who has facilitated a series of high-level talks between the United States and North Korea, including the Trump-Kim summit, has met Kim three times this year.<\/p>\n
After their third meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea\u2019s capital, in September, Moon said Kim agreed to make a reciprocal visit to Seoul this year.<\/p>\n
Their two previous summits were held at the countries\u2019 shared border village of Panmunjom.<\/p>\n
If Kim, a third-generation hereditary ruler, visits Seoul, he would be the first North Korean leader do so since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.<\/p>\n
Two previous South Korean presidents visited Pyongyang to meet Kim\u2019s late father, Kim Jong Il.<\/p>\n
After sharply raising tensions with nuclear and missile tests last year, Kim Jong Un abruptly reached out to Moon and Trump with a vague nuclear disarmament pledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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