“I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him”, the billionaire buffoon said in an interview published Wednesday.
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In the interview held at the Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, Donald Trump talked about pressuring China, North Korea’s only major diplomatic and economic partner, into finding a solution to the crisis.
Last month, Mr Trump suggested the United States should stop preventing its allies Japan and South Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons, directly contradicting long-standing U.S. policy on non-proliferation. But his administration has not followed suit with North Korea and in fact deepened the isolation of the nation.
The reclusive state also sparked worldwide outrage after blasting a rocket into space – seen as a covert intercontinental ballistic missile test.
In a separate development, the BBC announced the possibility of Trump visiting the United Kingdom before the presidential election in November.
He highlighted earlier comments in which Trump said he was unlikely to have a good relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee today said he is perfectly willing to meet one-on-one with Kim Jong Un.
Sullivan added that Trump “seems to have a freaky fascination with foreign strongmen like Putin and Kim. But his approach to foreign policy makes no sense for the rest of us”.
However, Troy University professor Daniel Pinkston warned that any communication between a US president and Kim Jong Un might indirectly “help Pyongyang achieve its objectives”, something which “Seoul would be opposed to”. “And at a minimum I will be renegotiating those agreements, at a minimum”. No serving US president has ever met with a North Korean leader, although Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton met with Kim Jong Un’s predecessors after they left office.
Then-candidate Barack Obama was criticized by Republicans during his 2008 presidential campaign for saying he would meet without precondition with Iranian leaders to discuss their nuclear ambitions.
Clinton described Trump’s idea of dismantling Dodd-Frank as reckless.
‘They are extracting vast billions of dollars out of our country. Cuba now has normalized relations with the USA and Iran signed an historic nuclear deal with the west, a deal spearheaded by Obama.
He also called for a renegotiation of the Paris climate deal, arguing that it favoured nations such as China while promising to do away with most of the Dodd-Frank financial regulations if elected as the next President of the US.
He also said he was planning to release a detailed policy platform on the economy in two weeks.
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Asked by presenter Megyn Kelly about retweeting somebody calling her a bimbo, Mr Trump claimed it was a “modern day form of fighting back”.
