South Korean President Lee Jae Myung praised President Donald Trump’s foreign policy on Monday and said he wants a Trump Tower built in his country.
During his Oval Office visit, Lee said that he trusts Trump over any other world leader to establish peace between North and South Korea. Trump stated he plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “in the appropriate future” to bring in a “new era of peace” on the Korean Peninsula.
“Among the many world leaders, I believe that you are the only leader that has made such accomplishments. And I would like to mention that the only remaining divided nation in the world is the Korean Peninsula and I would like to ask for your role in establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula. So I look forward to your meeting with Kim Jong Un and the construction of a Trump Tower in North Korea,” Lee told Trump.
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Lee added that North Korea further developed its “nuclear and missile capabilities” during former President Joe Biden’s administration, and credited Trump with bringing peace to the peninsula during his first term.
“Thanks to your efforts when you were in office during your first term, the situation on the Korean peninsula was stable. But, during the short — the hiatus where you were out of office, North Korea developed further its nuclear and missile capabilities and that lead to a deterioration on the situation of the Korean peninsula,” Lee said.
“And they wouldn’t have done that, they would not have done that if I were president,” Trump replied.
The meeting is the first in-person conversation held between Trump and Lee, a former child laborer who was elected to lead South Korea in June.
Trump became the first sitting president to meet with a North Korean leader in Singapore during his first term in June 2018. They also met for a second summit in March 2019, and they met a third time in June 2019 when Trump visited the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea.
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