Trump says North Korea ‘has great potential’
Donald Trump declares nuclear threat from Pyongyang no longer exists and says people can feel safer since he took office as president
Seoul — North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat, nor is it the "biggest and most dangerous problem" for the US, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday on his return from a summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The summit was the first between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader and followed a flurry of North Korean nuclear and missile tests and angry exchanges between Trump and Kim last year that fuelled fears of war. "Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office," Trump said on Twitter. "There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!" On Tuesday, the US president told a news conference after the summit that he would like to lift sanctions against the North but that this would not happen immediately. North Korean state media lauded the summit as a resounding success, saying Trump expressed his intenti...
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