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**Trump Open to Dialogue with Kim Jong Un Despite Reported Rebuffs, White House Says**
**WASHINGTON** – Former President Donald Trump remains “receptive” to engaging in dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the White House stated Wednesday. This announcement follows reports that North Korean officials repeatedly refused to accept a letter from Trump intended to reopen communication channels between Washington and Pyongyang.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emphasized Trump’s desire to build on the “progress” achieved during his historic 2018 summit with Kim in Singapore – the first-ever meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.
“The president remains receptive to correspondence with Kim Jong Un,” Leavitt told reporters, declining to comment on the specific report about the rejected letter, which was reported by NK News.
According to the report, North Korean diplomats in New York allegedly declined multiple attempts to deliver Trump’s letter aimed at re-establishing communication with Kim.
The news comes as South Korea’s newly elected president, Lee Jae-myung, is taking steps to reduce tensions with the North. On Wednesday, South Korea deactivated loudspeakers broadcasting K-pop and propaganda across the border, a move the Ministry of National Defence said would “restore trust in inter-Korean relations” and “promote peace on the Korean Peninsula.”
North and South Korea remain technically at war, as the 1950-1953 Korean War ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
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