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Trump suggests U.S. will meet with North Korea at joke-filled dinner

US President Donald Trump (left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (right). [Photo by Reuters]

In the midst of a joke-filled monologue at a dinner with journalists, President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that the United States will be meeting with North Korea but has told Pyongyang it must first“denuke.”

“Now we are talking and they, by the way, called up a couple of days ago. They said that‘we would like to talk.’ And I said‘So would we, but you have to denuke, you have to denuke,’” Trump told attendees at the annual Gridiron Club dinner.

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