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US officials reportedly eye meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un

The U.S. administration is reportedly weighing a meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the coming weeks, according to CNN.

This would be the fourth time two leaders meet, and the first in Trump’s second term.

“I’d like to meet [Kim Jong Un] this year,” Trump said in August as he welcomed South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung, to the White House for the first time.

Trump will travel to Asia later this month to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Malaysia and an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea. He is also expected to stop in Japan.

But officials have yet to do “any of the serious logistical planning,” CNN reported, as they are more focused on arranging a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as trade tensions flare up between Beijing and Washington.

Kim has also said he’d be open to meeting with Trump again. “Personally, I still have good memories of U.S. President Trump,” Kim said last month. “If the U.S. drops its hollow obsession with denuclearization and wants to pursue peaceful coexistence with North Korea based on the recognition of reality, there is no reason for us not to sit down with the U.S.,” he said.

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