North Korea has tremendous economic potential: Trump

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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un following a meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi Feb. 27, 2019. AFP-Yonhap

By Kim Yoo-chul, Lee Min-hyung

HANOI ― Washington is ready to help Pyongyang develop its economy, U.S. President Donald Trump told North Korean leader Kim Jong-un when they met Wednesday at the start of their two-day summit in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.

"I think that your country has tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited," Trump said. "And I think that you will have a tremendous future with your country, a great leader. I look forward to watching it happen and helping it to happen. And we will help it to happen."

Asked by a reporter if the two sides might formally end the Korean War, Trump said, "We will see."

Kim said he was sure they would produce a "great outcome which everyone welcomes" in Hanoi.