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Trump suggests US will meet with North Korea in first, joke-filled press dinner of his presidency

A combination photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump in New York, U.S. September 21, 2017 and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, September 4, 2017.  REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque, KCNA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photos  Thomson Reuters


WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the midst of a joke-filled monologue at a dinner with journalists, President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that the United States will be meeting with North Korea but has told Pyongyang it must first “denuke.”

“Now we are talking and they, by the way, called up a couple of days ago. They said that ‘we would like to talk.’ And I said ‘So would we, but you have to denuke, you have to denuke,'” Trump told attendees at the annual Gridiron Club dinner.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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