Trump open to meeting North Korea’s Kim on Asia trip but nothing scheduled

Trump and Kim person some expressed an involvement successful gathering again, but a US authoritative said a gathering is ‘not connected the schedule’.

Donald Trump is not scheduled to conscionable North Korean person Kim Jong Un portion successful South Korea adjacent week, a elder United States authoritative has said, contempt speculation astir a gathering portion the US president tours Asia.

“The president, of course, has expressed his willingness to conscionable with Kim Jong Un successful the future. It is not connected the docket for this trip,” the elder official, speaking connected information of anonymity, told reporters successful a telephone connected Friday.

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Speaking to reporters earlier departing for Asia precocious connected Friday night, President Trump said helium would similar to conscionable Kim, but helium was not definite if it would happen.

“He knows I’m going there,” Trump said, referring to the North Korean leader.

Speaking aboriginal aboard Air Force One regarding a imaginable gathering with Kim, Trump said: “I’d beryllium unfastened 100 percent. I get on precise good with Kim Jong Un.”

Trump told maine of wanting to conscionable with Kim Jong Un connected his Asia trip: “he knows I’m going there.” https://t.co/zqkyELOsol

— Kellie Meyer (@KellieMeyerNews) October 25, 2025

South Korea’s unification curate had said earlier connected Friday that helium believed determination was a “considerable” accidental that Trump would conscionable Kim portion helium is successful the South Korean metropolis of Gyeongju adjacent week for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum.

North Korea appears “to beryllium paying attraction to the United States, and assorted signs … suggest a sizeable anticipation of a meeting”, Unification Minister Chung Dong-young told reporters, earlier urging the 2 leaders not to fto the accidental “slip away”.

“I don’t privation to miss adjacent a 1 percent chance,” said Chung, whose ministry handles Seoul’s fraught relations with Pyongyang.

“They request to marque a decision,” helium said.

While the gathering betwixt Trump and Kim present looks little likely, the White House confirmed connected Thursday that Trump volition beryllium gathering Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier helium returns to the US from his multi-day sojourn to Southeast Asia.

Trump volition statesman his travel in Malaysia this weekend, wherever helium is owed to be the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.

A fig of different high-profile leaders from non-ASEAN countries volition besides beryllium contiguous successful Malaysia, including Japan’s caller Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

‘Fond memories’

Trump and Kim met 3 times during Trump’s archetypal presidency, with some leaders expressing an involvement successful gathering again successful caller months.

Kim said past period helium was open to talks with the US if Washington stops insisting his state springiness up its atomic weapons programme.

The North Korean person besides commented connected Trump, saying: ” Personally, I inactive person fond memories of US President Trump.”

Kim’s comments travel aft some Trump and South Korean person Lee Jae Myung expressed their willingness to conscionable with their North Korean counterpart during a gathering at the White House successful August.

“Someday, I’ll spot him. I look guardant to seeing him. He was precise bully with me,” Trump said astatine the time, adding that helium knew Kim, whose household has ruled North Korea for 3 generations, “better than anybody, almost, different than his sister”.

Lee, who has been vocally supportive of thawing relations with his country’s bluish neighbour, said astatine the aforesaid gathering that helium hoped the US president would “build a Trump Tower” successful North Korea “so that I tin play play there”.

North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles earlier this week, arsenic Seoul made preparations to big the APEC acme adjacent week.