WASHINGTON_President Donald Trump, who has threatened to annihilate a nuclear-armed North Korea, said Saturday that he would talk to that country's leadership under certain conditions.
Asked at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland about a renewed rapprochement between North and South Korea that threatens to leave out Washington, Trump said he "always believes in talking."
Trump said the recent contact between the two Koreas was a "big start" _ and again took credit for making it happen.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who has threatened to attack the United States mainland with nuclear weapons, "knows I'm not messing around, not even a little bit," Trump said.
Trump said he hopes North Korea gets involved in next month's Winter Olympic Games, which has been the pretext for renewing North-South talks, and added that he hopes the two countries "take it beyond the Olympics" in their talks.
