Donald Trump intends to meet Kim Jong Un from North Korea this year, tells the new president Lee Jae Myung of South Korea

US President Donald Trump said he hopes to meet this year at a meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Lee praised Trump’s diplomacy and urged him to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula. US President Donald Trump speaks at a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2025 (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) US President Donald Trump, Monday (August 25), hopes to meet this year. Trump spoke in the Oval Office as he welcomed South Korea’s new President Lee Jae Myung, and Trump said: “I want to meet him this year. I look forward to meeting with Kim Jong Un in the appropriate future.” Tense first encounter with South Korea Trump and Lee met for the first time amid prolonged tension. Earlier, the US president raised vague complaints about a ‘purification or revolution’ in South Korea on social media, but later returned the comments and attributed to a possible ‘misunderstanding’. Despite a July trade agreement that saved the South Korean exports of the harder US rates, Trump and Lee negotiated on nuclear energy, military spending and the details of the $ 350 billion investment promise in the US Lee and encouraged the Peace efforts at the Oval Office meeting, and avoided President Lee, who avoided the praise and diplomacy. He said: ‘I hope you can bring peace to the Korean Peninsula, the only divided nation in the world so you can meet with Kim Jong Un, build a Trump world [real-estate complex] In North Korea so that I can play golf there, and so that you can truly play a role as a world-historical Peacemaker. ” Office. The Defense and Trump is Pressing Lee on the Existing Trade Deal and US Defense Spending in South Korea, including the upkeep of 28,500 American Trumps Trump, which is stationed in the country. Asia-Pacific (Apec) in South Korea attends from 30 October to 1 November.