Reacting to Kim’s remarks, US President Donald Trump said he got along well with the North’s leader and “we have to do what we have to do,” Eurasia Diary reports citing Press TV.
“But he did sign a contract; he did sign an agreement talking about denuclearization. ... That was done in Singapore, and I think he’s a man of his word, so we’re going to find out,” Trump added.
He was referring to a broadly-worded agreement the two sides made at the end of their first summit in Singapore in June 2018.
Kim and Trump met two more times after that summit, but negotiations faltered after the collapse of their second meeting last February in Vietnam, where the US president refused to accept a proposal for bilateral action and left the talks.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also reacted to Kim’s remarks by saying that it would be “deeply disappointing” if Kim reneged on what he called denuclearization commitments and that Kim would hopefully “choose peace and prosperity over conflict and war.”