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U.S. NEWS Monday 12 august 2019

Trump: Kim wants to

meet again, apologized

for missile tests

By JILL COLVIN the standoff over North Ko-
Associated Press rea's nuclear weapons pro-
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. gram in exchange for the
(AP) — President Donald meetings.
Trump said Saturday that At their second summit in
North Korea's Kim Jong Un Vietnam in February, Trump
wants to meet once again rejected Kim's demand
to "start negotiations" after for widespread sanctions
joint U.S.-South Korea mili- relief in exchange for dis-
tary exercises end. He also mantling the North's main
said Kim apologized for the nuclear complex, a partial President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Aug. 9,
flurry of recent short-range disarmament step. 2019, in Washington, as he prepares to leave Washington for his annual August holiday at his New
missile tests that has rattled The U.S. and South Korea Jersey golf club.
U.S. allies in the region. have scaled down their Associated Press
Trump is tweeting more major military exercises
details from the "beautiful" since Trump and Kim's first
three-page letter he told re- summit in June 2018. But
porters on Friday that he'd the North insists even the
received from Kim. Trump, downsized drills violate
who is on vacation at his agreements between Kim
golf club in New Jersey, and Trump and compel it
said Kim spent much of his to "develop, test and de-
letter complaining about ploy the powerful physical
"the ridiculous and expen- means essential for nation-
sive exercises," which North al defense."
Korea sees as a threat. When they last met in June
He said Kim offered him "a of this year, Trump and Kim
small apology" for the re- agreed to resume work-
cent tests and assured him ing-level nuclear talks that
"that this testing would stop have been stalled since
when the exercises end." February, but there have
North Korea on Saturday been no known meetings
fired what appeared to between the two sides
be two short-range bal- since then.q
listic missiles into the sea,
according to South Korea's
military — the fifth round of
launches in less than three
weeks.
"I look forward to seeing
Kim Jong Un in the not
too distant future!" Trump
wrote.
The two leaders have met
three times — in Singapore,
Hanoi and at the Korean
Demilitarized Zone — but
critics say Trump has re-
ceived few concessions in