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<blockquote data-quote="Sportello" data-source="post: 2813056" data-attributes="member: 55299"><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-01/trump-says-he-s-considering-moves-to-break-up-wall-street-banks" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>‘Honored to Do It’</strong></span></a></p><p>Addressing the most urgent foreign policy and national security issue before him, Trump said he’d be willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim “under the right circumstances” if it would result in defusing tension on the Korean Peninsula.</p><p></p><p>“If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Trump said.</p><p></p><p>“Most political people would never say that,” he said, “but I’m telling you under the right circumstances I would meet with him.”</p><p></p><p>No U.S. president has had direct contact with the North Korean regime and any contacts between the two nations have been limited since the signing of an armistice that halted the Korean War in 1953. Kim has never met with a foreign leader since taking charge after his father’s death in 2011 and hasn’t left his isolated country.</p><p></p><p>Trump also <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-01/trump-defends-invite-to-philippines-duterte-amid-drug-war-toll" target="_blank">defended</a> his White House invitation to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who’s come under criticism from human rights groups for a brutal crackdown on the drug trade.</p><p></p><p>“The Philippines is very important to me strategically and militarily,” Trump said. “He’s been very, very tough on that drug problem but he has a massive drug problem.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sportello, post: 2813056, member: 55299"] [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-01/trump-says-he-s-considering-moves-to-break-up-wall-street-banks'][SIZE=4][B]‘Honored to Do It’[/B][/SIZE][/URL] Addressing the most urgent foreign policy and national security issue before him, Trump said he’d be willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim “under the right circumstances” if it would result in defusing tension on the Korean Peninsula. “If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Trump said. “Most political people would never say that,” he said, “but I’m telling you under the right circumstances I would meet with him.” No U.S. president has had direct contact with the North Korean regime and any contacts between the two nations have been limited since the signing of an armistice that halted the Korean War in 1953. Kim has never met with a foreign leader since taking charge after his father’s death in 2011 and hasn’t left his isolated country. Trump also [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-01/trump-defends-invite-to-philippines-duterte-amid-drug-war-toll']defended[/URL] his White House invitation to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who’s come under criticism from human rights groups for a brutal crackdown on the drug trade. “The Philippines is very important to me strategically and militarily,” Trump said. “He’s been very, very tough on that drug problem but he has a massive drug problem.” [/QUOTE]
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