# Trump says talking to North Korea’s Kim makes the south safer

https://mins.news/en/item/24675

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-18 01:58 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/18/trump-says-talking-to-north-koreas-kim-makes-the-south-safer?traffic_source=rss

> US President Donald Trump says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un responded “very positively” to a request for talks. Trump also says that speaking with Kim makes the region safer after scaling back military exercises with South Korea at the last minute on Sunday.

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