Kim Jong Un has revealed he still has good memories of Donald Trump as he urged Washington to drop its demand on his nation to surrender its nuclear weapons as a precondition for resuming long-stalled diplomacy.

Speaking to Pyongyang's rubber-stamp parliament on Sunday, he stressed he has no intention of ever resuming dialogue with rival South Korea, a key US ally that helped broker his previous summits with Mr Trump during the American president's first term.

The North Korean leader suspended virtually all cooperation with the South following the collapse of his second summit with Mr Trump in February 2019 over disagreements about US-led sanctions against the North.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have worsened in recent years as Mr Kim has accelerated his weapons build-up and aligned

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