'President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary,' the Sanders said.
President Donald Trump has rejected new sanctions against North Korea due to his relationship with leader Kim Jong Un.
But on Friday the White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that"President Trump likes Chairman Kim, and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary." President Donald Trump speaks with North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on February 27. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Still, both Trump and Kim have left the door open for future talks, and the two leaders who once threatened nuclear war against one another have developed something of an affinity in the past year, even going as far to exchange"love" letters that Trump has reportedly prominently displayed to guests of the White House. Both sides have made goodwill gestures to prove their commitment to the most high-level dialogue since the U.S.
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