周三，美国总统特朗普表示，他打算在今年晚些时候与金正恩会面，并称自己和这位朝鲜领导人相处融洽。
当被问及是否计划与金正恩举行面对面会谈时，特朗普给出肯定答复，还称二人关系良好。
他说：“没错，我会和他见面。我和他相处得不错。要知道，能和他保持良好关系，这是件好事。”
目前尚不清楚这场第四次首脑会晤的筹备进度。特朗普第一任期内曾三度与金正恩会面，周三他并未透露两人近期是否有书信往来。
去年，特朗普访问亚洲期间，美方曾尝试促成首脑会晤，但最终未能落地，部分原因是筹备时间仓促，后勤安排难度较大。
过去两天，特朗普一直在主动释放对平壤示好的信号，包括缩短原定的美韩联合军事演习时长，还在社交平台发布了 2019 年他与金正恩在朝韩非军事区会面的照片。一名美国官员透露，白宫方面考虑利用今年 11 月赴亚洲出席领导人峰会的行程，重启双方直接外交对话。
但目前还无法判断，一次面对面会晤能否完成此前三次会谈未能实现的目标。前三次会面中，最后一次特朗普还短暂踏入朝鲜境内，然而整体成果寥寥，朝鲜此后加快了核武器的生产。
特朗普对朝鲜不断扩充核武库一事大多轻描淡写，他称朝鲜现有 57 件核武器，该数字与公开估算大体一致，只是更为具体。他认为这是前几任总统留下的问题，而金正恩近期表态，计划进一步强化本国核力量。
特朗普称：“如果我早担任总统，绝不会允许这种情况发生。”
他表示，第一任期内和金正恩共处约八小时建立的私人情谊，足以约束朝鲜的过激举动。
“我十分了解金正恩，只要美国有明智的总统，他会保持克制。倘若执政者缺乏判断力，局势或许就难以掌控。” 特朗普说道。
Trump says he intends to meet Kim Jong Un this year
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he intends to meet later this year with Kim Jong Un, claiming he gets along well with the North Korean leader.
“Yeah, I will,” Trump said when asked whether he planned in-person talks with Kim, with whom Trump claimed to have a great relationship.
“I get along with him. And you know what? The fact that I get along with him — that’s a good thing,” he said.
It’s not clear how concrete Trump’s plans are for a fourth summit with Kim, with whom he met during his first term. Trump wouldn’t say Wednesday whether he’d exchanged any letters with the North Korean ruler.
Attempts last year to broker a summit with Kim during Trump’s visit to Asia fell through, in part due to the logistical issues of arranging a meeting on short notice.
But the US president has spent the past two days working to curry favor with Pyongyang, including bycutting short planned US-South Korea military exercisesand posting a photo of his 2019 meeting with Kim at the inter-Korean demilitarized zone.
And White House officials have eyed upcoming travel to Asia for a leaders summit in November as a potential opportunity to rekindle direct diplomacy, according to a US official.
How an in-person meeting this year would accomplish what three previous meetings could not isn’t clear. Trump emerged from those three encounters — the last of which included a short jaunt into North Korean territory — mostly empty handed, and North Korea accelerated its production of nuclear weapons.
Trump mostly shrugged off the nuclear arsenal North Korea has been amassing, which he said stood at 57 weapons. That is in line with publicly available estimates, though more specific. The US president suggested it was the fault of previous presidents; the North Korean leader has said recently he intends tobeef up the country’s nuclear forces.
“If I were I president I wouldn’t have allowed it,” Trump said.
He said his personal relationship with Kim — forged, apparently, over the roughly eight hours they spent together in his first term — would be enough to contain North Korea’s bad behavior.
“I know Kim Jong Un very well, and he’s going to be fine as long as we have a smart president,” Trump said. “He’s going to be fine. If we have a dumb president, then he’s probably not going to be so fine.”
