President Trump holds up a letter purportedly from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as he leads a Cabinet meeting Jan. 2 at the White House. Hill passed the note to a North Korean official on a trip to Pyongyang in December 2007, but Kim Jong Il never responded. Obama also reached out to Kim Jong Il through a letter in 2009, his first year in office. “That letter was a very nice letter,” Trump said to reporters, before admitting that he had not yet read it. “It’s been this way for 80 years,” he said of the hostility with North Korea, which was founded in 1948.

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2019 20:59 UTC