Trump To Meet Kim Jong Un This Year, Says North Korea Has 57 Nuclear Weapons
US President Donald Trump announced plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, citing a desire to address the country's nuclear arsenal. Trump claimed North Korea possesses 57 nuclear weapons while defending his diplomatic approach despite ongoing tensions with Iran.
Why it matters
The potential summit represents a significant shift in US-North Korea relations and highlights the administration's unconventional approach to nuclear non-proliferation.
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, in what would be their first encounter of Trump's second term.Trump also said that North Korea had 57 "very powerful" nuclear weapons, in a rare and unusually specific assessment by a US president of Kim's atomic arsenal."Yeah, I will be," Trump told reporters during a tour of a new helipad he is building at the White House, when asked if he planned to meet Kim later in 2026.Trump gave no details, but the Wall Street Journal reported that he was eying a meeting when he travels to China for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November.Trump defended planning to meet Kim at the same time as the US president wages a war with Iran that he has justified on the grounds of preventing Tehran from getting the bomb."He has 57 very…
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