Trump may have joked about talking nukes with North Korea, but now he’s getting flak after a US official tried to clarify his remarks

Thomson Reuters

• During a light-hearted dinner over the weekend, President Donald Trump appeared to joke that he had a phone call with North Korea.
• Trump said he told the North Koreans “you have to denuke.”
• A South Korean news agency asked a US National Security Council official for clarification and was told Trump was referring to a phone call he had with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
• Journalists and foreign policy experts began accusing Trump of conflating the two countries on the peninsula.

Comments made by President Donald Trump at a joke-filled dinner event in Washington with some 600 attendees over the weekend of made the rounds on Twitter after Trump riffed on US-North Korean relations.

During a speech, Trump appeared to joke that North Korea called him to ask if the US would be interested in talks — a potentially watershed proposal that a senior US administration official later said did not happen.

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