{"id":74374,"date":"2025-09-22T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/22\/kim-jong-un-nuclear-talks-fond-memories-donald-trump-meeting"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:23:53","slug":"kim-jong-un-open-to-nuclear-talks-with-us-saying-he-has-fond-memories-of-previous-trump-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74374","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un open to nuclear talks with US, saying he has \u2018fond memories\u2019 of previous Trump meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from North Korea\u2019s leader come as South Korea\u2019s Lee Jae Myung says he could accept a deal that sees the North retain its nuclear weapons<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has suggested he would be open to talks with the US, while South Korea\u2019s president has hinted he would accept a deal between Kim and Donald Trump that allowed the North to retain its existing nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech to the Supreme People\u2019s Assembly on Sunday, Kim said he still had \u201cfond memories\u201d of Trump, whom he met three times during Trump\u2019s first term as US president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/22\/kim-jong-un-nuclear-talks-fond-memories-donald-trump-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from North Korea\u2019s leader come as South Korea\u2019s Lee Jae Myung says he could accept a deal that sees the North retain its nuclear weaponsThe North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has suggested he would be open to talks with the US, while South Kore&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[421,3332,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kim-jong-un","category-lee-jae-myung","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74375,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74374\/revisions\/74375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}