{"id":121078,"date":"2026-08-16T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/121078\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:50:13","slug":"kim-min-seok-says-he-discussed-trump-kim-photo-plans-u-s-china-japan-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/121078\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Min-seok Says He Discussed Trump-Kim Photo, Plans U.S., China, Japan Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Photo posted by U.S. President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Aug. 15 (local time). Captured from Truth Social - Seoul Economic Daily Politics News from South Korea\" title=\"Kim Min-seok Says He Discussed Trump-Kim Photo, Plans U.S., China, Japan Trips\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786870213_596_news-p.v1.20260816.13f636e9799d4e73a002b4c492e075dd_P1.png\"\/>Photo posted by U.S. President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Aug. 15 (local time). Captured from Truth Social<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Kim Min-seok, a candidate for leader of the ruling Democratic Party, said he once discussed a photo of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with Trump at the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Speaking on the 16th about Trump&#8217;s social media post the previous day \u2014 a photo of Trump with Kim Jong-un taken at Panmunjom in June 2019 and shared on Truth Social \u2014 the candidate said, &#8220;When I met President Trump at the White House, he asked to have that photo brought in, and we talked about it.&#8221; He added, &#8220;At the time, I did not disclose this out of consideration for North Korea&#8217;s position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">&#8220;Every time I met President Trump and Vice President Vance, they asked about the North Korea issue,&#8221; Kim said. &#8220;I believe the White House has both interest and will. The question is our own wise role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Kim visited the United States on March 13 during his tenure as prime minister and met with Trump. He outlined a plan to &#8220;pursue visits to the United States, China and Japan within the year and conduct bipartisan party diplomacy if I become party leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Earlier, Trump posted the photo with Kim Jong-un on Truth Social on the 15th, writing, &#8220;In this picture we don&#8217;t look too friendly, but we have many pictures where we are laughing. Kim Jong Un and I GET ALONG GREAT!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo posted by U.S. President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Aug. 15 (local time). Captured from Truth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[156,74,141,12743,31,34,62708,29752],"class_list":["post-121078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-kim-min-seok","tag-korea","tag-north-korea","tag-party-diplomacy","tag-truth-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}