North Korean leader Kim Jong Un earlier in the day vowed to unveil a new strategic weapon soon if the Trump administration continues what the DPRK regards as its hostile policy – a statement that many media outlets linked to Pyongyang's belligerent promise of a “Christmas Gift” for Washington.
US President Donald Trump said late on Tuesday that he had “a very good relationship” with Kim Jong Un and humorously expressed hope that the promised ‘Christmas Gift' would be “a beautiful vase”, adding “he likes me, I like him, we get along. He is representing his country. I represent my country. We have to do what we have to do”.
Trump also said that Kim had signed a nonbinding denuclearization ‘contract' in Singapore, in a reference to a landmark bilateral meeting between Trump and Kim in June 2018.
After the second summit in Vietnam, Trump met with Kim in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas and held an hour-long talk in private inside the Freedom House on the South Korean side of the zone. Trump briefly stepped over the demarcation line into North Korean soil, becoming the first US president to do so. The denuclearization talks have, however, been stalled since that time.
In his first 2020 statement, Kim slammed what he regarded as a lack of progress in negotiations with the Trump administration and the resumption by Washington of military drills on and around the Korean peninsula, vowing to continue the development…
