> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.theglobalvoice.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Trump Reopens Door to Kim Jong Un as Asia Trip Nears - URL: https://www.theglobalvoice.com/trump-reopens-door-to-kim-jong-un-as-asia-trip-nears/ - Published: 2026-10-13T03:15:47.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-13T10:36:05.000Z - Description: Trump has again raised the prospect of meeting Kim Jong Un during his November Asia trip. Another summit could reopen diplomacy, but Pyongyang now rejects denuclearisation as a condition for talks and enters any negotiation from a stronger position. - Author: TGV Desk - Tags: Diplomacy, Donald Trump, North Korea, Kim Jong Un, Nuclear Weapons, Asia-Pacific, The Day So Far, Top Stories, has-audio Donald Trump has spent years arguing that his personal relationship with Kim Jong Un gives Washington something conventional diplomacy cannot. Now he is testing that proposition again, against a North Korea that is more heavily armed and considerably less interested in bargaining away its nuclear status. Asked at the White House on October 12 whether he planned to meet Kim during his coming trip to Asia, Trump left the door open. “I may, yeah. That’ll be exciting, won’t it? But I get along with him,” he told reporters. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/c5/9bc51e60-58a6-4a20-a6fd-f93758107131/content/images/2026/10/Trump-s-Interaction--with-Press-Upon-Departure-from-the-White-House.png) Trump's Interaction with Press Upon Departure from the White House The timing gives Trump an opening. He is due in Shenzhen for the [APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting on November 18 and 19](https://www.apec.org/?trk=public%5Fprofile%5Fproject-button&utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com), creating a regional window for a meeting if both governments decide they want one. No summit has been announced, and neither Washington nor Pyongyang has disclosed negotiations over a venue or agenda. Trump and Kim have shown that direct talks between leaders can be arranged quickly. Turning those talks into a lasting agreement has proved far more difficult. Their first summit in Singapore in June 2018 produced a [joint commitment to establish new US-North Korean relations and work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula](https://2017-2021.state.gov/the-singapore-summit-building-a-lasting-peace-on-the-korean-peninsula/?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com). The language was politically significant but left the central questions of sequencing, verification and sanctions relief unresolved. Those questions caught up with both leaders in Hanoi in February 2019\. Trump arrived insisting that he had not backed away from denuclearisation, according to the [official presidential record of his remarks in Hanoi](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-201900102/pdf/DCPD-201900102.pdf?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com). The summit ended without an agreement after the two sides failed to bridge their differences over sanctions relief and the scale of North Korean nuclear dismantlement. A third encounter at Panmunjom four months later restored the spectacle, but not negotiations capable of delivering the Singapore commitments. The gap is wider now. Kim has said he retains “fond memories” of Trump and is willing to talk to the United States, but only if Washington abandons its insistence that North Korea surrender its nuclear arsenal. Pyongyang has also made clear that it will not exchange its nuclear weapons for sanctions relief. Trump therefore faces a familiar diplomatic opportunity under less familiar conditions. North Korea has continued expanding its missile and nuclear capabilities, while its strategic relationships with Russia and China have deepened. Washington no longer approaches another Trump-Kim meeting from the same position it occupied in 2018. That does not make another summit meaningless. Direct contact could reopen negotiations after years of paralysis and establish whether either government has altered its demands. But the personal chemistry that Trump continues to advertise has never been the principal obstacle. The unresolved question is still what each side is prepared to concede once the cameras leave the room.