Seoul, June 24: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has on Sunday received a personal letter from United States President Donald Trump of “excellent content”, state-run media said, amid a nuclear impasse between Washington and Pyongyang.
Denuclearization talks between Trump and Kim have been stalled since the Hanoi summit failure in February, after both leaders failed to reach a nuclear deal due to differences as Kim stressed for sanctions relief, whereas Trump focused over Kim’s last year promise to complete and full denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Though two nations have put blame on each other for the collapse of the second summit and failing to reach a common deal, both expressed their willingness to hold a meeting resuming nuclear negotiations, with the US president saying he had received a “beautiful letter” earlier this month from the N Korean leader.
On Sunday, Trump wrote a letter to Kim, the North state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has reported, who “said with satisfaction that the letter is of excellent content”.
“Appreciating the political judging faculty and extraordinary courage of President Trump, Kim Jong Un said that he would seriously contemplate the interesting content,” KCNA said.
However, the report offered no further details over the content inside the letter or when Trump received it or sent by Kim, according to Dawn news reports.
The development came two days after Kim hosted China’s President Xi Jinping in Pyongyang on Friday. Kim told his Chinese counterpart his visit demonstrated “the immutability and invincibility of the DPRK-China friendship before the world”, KCNA said.