{"id":123664,"date":"2026-08-18T17:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/123664\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:39:19","slug":"trump-posts-kim-jong-un-photo-following-talk-of-new-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/123664\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump posts Kim Jong Un photo following talk of new contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>18 August 2026 10:15<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">US President Donald Trump posted a photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his Truth Social account following his statement about their talks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The photo shows the North Korean leader surrounded by officials while speaking on the phone, <a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/caliber.az\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Caliber.Az<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHey, Donald, we cool&#8230; right?\u201d the caption above the photo reads.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This lighthearted post comes amid Trump\u2019s recent <a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/caliber.az\/en\/post\/trump-to-scale-back-us-south-korea-military-drills-over-kim-jong-un-ties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">decision<\/a> to scale back major US-South Korea military exercises.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On August 17, Trump announced on Truth Social that he had instructed Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to \u201csubstantially reduce\u201d the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield joint drills, which are scheduled to run through August 27, describing the exercises as costly and saying they send an \u201cinappropriate and hostile\u201d signal to North Korea.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He specifically cited his \u201cvery good relationship\u201d with Kim Jong Un and stated that North Korea has been \u201cunthreatening and respectful\u201d during his presidency, while also noting South Korea\u2019s refusal to join efforts related to Iran.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">South Korean officials <a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/south-korea-trump-us-drills-north-talks-6323391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">confirmed<\/a> the exercises started as planned but said they are reviewing the remarks and coordinating closely with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>By Jeyhun Aghazada<\/p>\n<p>Caliber.Az<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 116<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"18 August 2026 10:15 US President Donald Trump posted a photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4584,3262,4589,4585,4588,4583,4587,141,31,4586,4582,34],"class_list":["post-123664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","tag-azerbaijan","tag-baku","tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","tag-international-experts","tag-interviews","tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korea","tag-news-from-baku","tag-news-of-azerbaijan","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123664","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=123664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}