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North Korea’s Kim is open to talks with Trump, but wants to keep nuclear arsenal

# North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he has “fond memories” of US President Donald Trump and is open to future talks with the United States, if he can keep his nuclear arsenal. Kim met Trump three times for high-profile summits during Trump’s first term, before talks collapsed in Hanoi in 2019 over what concessions Pyongyang was prepared to make on its atomic weapons. The US demand that Kim give up his banned weapons has long been a sticking point between the two countries.