During his interview with Reuters, Trump also expressed disapproval of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military actions in eastern Ukraine, despite Putin being a figure he has previously said he respects.
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Trump’s intentions if elected president would mark a seismic shift in American foreign policy towards North Korea.
The minister also said Seoul had made a decision to impose stronger sanctions to North Korea’s evolved provocations mentioning how Pyongyang launched a long-range ballistic missile while the worldwide community was discussing sanctions for its fourth nuclear test in January.
Currently, any contact with the U.S. happens between officials, not at a presidential level.
“I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him”, Trump said of Kim. “His approach to foreign policy makes no sense for the rest of us”.
He was responding to Trump’s comments made in an interview in NY on Tuesday that he would pursue face-to-face talks with Kim Jong Un in a bid to persuade Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
The divided outcome Tuesday in Kentucky and OR means Clinton won’t yet be able to turn all of her attention to the general election and taking on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, who locked up his party’s nomination after the rest of his rivals dropped out in early May.
“We may not trust them, they may pose an extraordinary danger to this country, but we have the obligation to find areas where we can potentially move forward”, said Obama.
That was a reference to Trump expressing annoyance over the USA paying for the security of Asian countries, and wondering why they didn’t get their own nuclear weapons.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton decried Mr Trump’s “bizarre fascination with foreign strongmen”.
Trump’s likely general election opponent, Hillary Clinton, was quick to jump on the remarks, putting out a statement from her top foreign policy adviser slamming Trump.
“North Korea wants to be accepted as a peer nuclear state, and if the leadership believed the meeting would help in achieving that goal, I think Kim would be very eager to host that meeting in Pyongyang”, Pinkston said.
Asked if he would try talking sense into Kim, Trump replied, “Absolutely”.
Mr Trump was also reunited with his old adversary, Fox News presenter Megyn Kelly, with whom he has had a months-long feud that began after a TV debate in August.
“I would say it’ll be close to a dismantling of Dodd-Frank”.
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He also said he was planning to release a detailed policy platform on the economy in two weeks.
