U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he would be “honored” to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un if such a meeting takes place “under the right circumstances,” the first time Trump has expressed his willingness to meet with Kim since taking office.”If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “If it’s under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that.”Trump said that most political people would never express such a willingness.
“But I’m telling you under the right circumstances I would meet with him,” he said.Trump did not elaborate on what the “right circumstances” would be.But his spokesman Sean Spicer said the conditions include, among other things, the North halting provocative behavior.
“We’ve got to see their provocative behavior ratcheted down immediately. There is a lot of conditions that would have to happen with respect to its behavior and to show signs of good faith. Clearly conditions are not there right now,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said at a regular briefing.
“Those circumstances do not exist now,” he said. “But we want to hold out the possibility that if North Korea were ever serious about completely dismantling its nuclear capability and taking away the threat they pose both to the region and to us that there is always going to be a possibility of that occurring. That possibility is not there at this time.”