Washington (AFP) — US President Donald Trump said Monday he hoped again to meet North Korea’s leaders as he fired off an extraordinary attack against the South’s leader hours before opening talks with him.

Trump, who met Kim Jong Un three times in his first term, hailed their relationship and that he knew him “better than anybody, almost, other than his sister.”

“Someday I’ll see him. I look forward to seeing him. He was very good with me,” Trump told reporters.

Trump contended that North Korea has been firing fewer rockets since he returned to the White House on January 20.

Trump has boasted that he has solved seven wars in as many months back in the job — a claim that is contested — but has been quiet on North Korea despite the unusually personal diplomacy during his 2017-2021 tenure

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