United States President Donald Trump is “receptive” to dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the White House has said, after a South Korea-based news site reported that Pyongyang repeatedly rebuffed Trump’s outreach efforts.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that Trump would like to build on the “progress” made during his 2018 summit with Kim.

The summit in Singapore marked the first-ever meeting between a sitting US president and the leader of North Korea, which has been ruled by the Kim dynasty for nearly eight decades.

But while historic, the summit, which was followed by meetings in Vietnam and at the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea, failed to achieve Washington’s goal of halting the advance of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons progr

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