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Trump Says Kim Jong Un Responded After Scaling Back Seoul Drills

Trump Says Kim Jong Un Responded After Scaling Back Seoul Drills
Trump Hints At Kim Jong Un Contacts After Scaling Back Seoul Drills · NDTV

President Trump is the leader of the United States.

He said that Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, has been talking to him again.

Trump and Kim are friends, and Trump says their friendship makes the world safer.

Trump told the military to make big practice war games with South Korea smaller.

He said those games were not nice and were too aggressive.

Trump was also upset with South Korea because it did not want to help the US fight a war with Iran.

Some people in the US government think Trump's decision is a bad idea.

They worry that other countries will not trust the US to protect them anymore.

North Korea does not like the practice games and said it might do something new to protect itself.

South Korea said the practice games started anyway, just like they were planned.

Key facts

US President
Donald Trump
North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un
Military exercises
Ulchi Freedom Shield (11 days)
US troops in South Korea
About 28,500 (Trump cited 39,000)
Trump-Kim meetings
Three in Trump's first term
North Korea's recent action
Test-fired a ballistic missile over the Sea of Japan
Key critic
Senator Jack Reed, Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member
Aircraft carrier
USS George Washington redeployed to the Middle East

Quotes

Donald Trump

U.S. President

“Kim Jong Un has always treated me with great respect. I understand him. He understands me.”
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“How do you know he hasn't responded?”
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