U.S. President Donald Trump meets with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the Oval Office, at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Lee Jae Myung, the president of South Korea, met with President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House, where the two talked about, among other things, their relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
In an Oval Office conversation, Trump gushed about his desire to get the two leaders together.
"Yeah, we want to have a meeting. I'd like to have a meeting," Trump told Lee. "I get along great with him when we were there. We even had a press conference. His first press conference. Kim Jong Un had a press conference. This was a little different press conference. I said, have you done a press conference before? And you know what? He did a great! It was a great press conference, actually. Actually historic. I doubt he's done one since. But I said, 'Would you like to meet the fake news? What do you want to do?' And they came in — they came in, and you've never seen anything like it. And then he said, 'Enough!' And that was the end of the press conference."
Trump's Cabinet officials on the sofa around him laughed boisterously.
Lee then made a comment prompting some on social media to question if it was a joke. The Irish Star reported it as a joke, though it wasn't clear.
“I look forward to your meeting with Kim Jung Un,” and “construction of Trump Tower in North Korea, and playing golf at a place," Lee said through a translator.
Kim has promoted the idea of a North Korea resort town on the beach. His government published photos of families playing in the ocean in July, but a closer look at the photo reveals that most of the women are wearing the same swimsuit top.
"The Korean people have great expectations for you, Mr. President. Thank you once again for your time," Lee added.
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