- Trump offered Kim Jong Un a ride on Air Force One, a new BBC series has revealed.
- The two met for their second negotiations in Vietnam in 2019, which eventually broke down.
- Trump said he could get Kim home in two hours, but the former declined the invitation.
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Former President Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has offered a ride home on Air Force One after the two met for the second time during a summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2019. a new BBC documentary unveiled.
The three-part series, titled “Trump Takes On the World,” reveals new details about how Trump and Kim negotiated over North Korea’s nuclear program, which eventually ended without an agreement.
Trump, who abruptly left the meeting, told the press at the time: “Sometimes you just have to walk.”
But the former president did not leave without first making an unusual offer.
“President Trump has offered Kim a lift on Air Force One,” Matthew Pottinger, Trump’s top security expert on the National Security Council, told the BBC.
“The president knew that Kim had arrived on a multi-day train ride through China to Hanoi, and the president said, ‘I can get you home in two hours if you want.’ It was a gracious gesture, ‘he added.
According to Pottinger, Kim turned down the offer.
US President Donald Trump addresses supporters during a campaign rally at MBS International Airport in Freeland, Michigan on September 10, 2020.
Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images
The BBC series also includes an interview with Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who was at the summit.
Bolton said that when Trump drove to the meeting, Trump was confident he would be able to conclude an agreement once he was in the room with Kim.
“Of course, Trump thought he had a new best friend in Kim Jong Un,” Bolton, who has since fallen out with Trump, told the Sunday Times. “Trump thought the relationship between the US and North Korea was great because he and Kim were friends. It’s a very dangerous perception.”
Kim and Trump finally met for the third and final time in the Korean demilitarized zone three months later, but there was no further progress.
The couple had a complicated relationship during Trump’s four years as president.
Trump called North Korea’s leader a ‘Little Rocket Man’ and threatened threats with ‘fire and anger’, but later suggested they were very good friends, and even described him as a ‘very smart guy’, according to the BBC. ‘described.
“Trump Takes on the World”, directed by Tim Stirzaker, will be broadcast on BBC2 on Wednesday.