Trump and Kim pictured during their February 2019 meeting in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
She also claimed the country’s nuclear arsenal has significantly expanded since the two leaders last met — despite their pledge to pursue denuclearization — and stated that no future summit would be possible if it centered on nuclear disarmament.
"If the U.S. fails to accept the changed reality and persists in the failed past, the DPRK–U.S. meeting will remain as a ‘hope’ of the U.S. side," Kim Yo Jong said, referring to the country by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Trump held three unprecedented summits with the North Korean leader — whom he once nicknamed "Little Rocket Man" — during his first term: in Singapore in 2018, Hanoi in 2019, and at the Korean Demilitarized Zone later that year, where he became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot on North Korean soil.
At the 2018 summit, Trump and Kim signed a joint statement pledging to "work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" and committed to establishing new U.S.–North Korea relations.
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This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says rocket drills that simulate a nuclear counterattack against enemies, at an undisclosed place in North Korea Monday, April 22, 2024. ( Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
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In a statement Monday commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the end of the Korean War, Trump reflected on his meetings with Kim, saying, "I was proud to become the first sitting President to cross this Demilitarized Zone into North Korea."
He also reaffirmed the U.S. alliance with South Korea, adding: "Although the evils of communism still persist in Asia, American and South Korean forces remain united in an ironclad alliance to this day."
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