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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Trump says Kim Jong Un ‘loves his people’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “loves his people, not that I’m surprised by that, but he loves his people.”
Trump makes his comments during an interview with VOA that followed his historic meeting with Kim, looking beyond Kim’s international reputation for having one of the worst human rights records in the world.
Political prisoners in the country number in the tens of thousands and systematic torture and assassinations, including of his own brother, are not unheard of.
In the past, Trump has spoken of the “horror” of life in North Korea and met in February with eight defectors from that country at the White House.
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