{"id":306168,"date":"2017-05-01T19:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-says-would-be-honored-to-meet-north-korean-leader\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:34:38","slug":"trump-says-would-be-honored-to-meet-north-korean-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-says-would-be-honored-to-meet-north-korean-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says would be &#039;honored&#039; to meet North Korean leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump says he \u201cwould be honored\u201d to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, despite escalating tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him I would absolutely. I would be honored to do it,&#8221; Trump said in an interview with <em>Bloomberg <\/em>on Monday. \u201cIf it\u2019s under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, Trump praised the North Korean leader as \u201ca pretty smart cookie,\u201d saying he was not to be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;I can tell you this, and a lot of people don&#8217;t like when I say it, but he was a young man of 26 or 27 when he took over from his father, when his father died. He&#8217;s dealing with obviously very tough people, in particular the generals and others,\u201d Trump told NBC News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd at a very young age, he was able to assume power,&#8217; Trump continued. &#8216;A lot of people, I&#8217;m sure, tried to take that power away, whether it was his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/05\/01\/520215\/Trump-would-be-honored-to-meet-North-Korean-leader\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump says he \u201cwould be honored\u201d to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, despite escalating tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. \u00a0 &#8220;If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him I would absolutely. I would be honored to do it,&#8221; Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg on Monday. \u201cIf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}