President Donald Trump says US relations with North Korea are positive and that the two leaders will have a second summit "quite soon."</s>New York — US President Donald Trump called on the rest of the world to isolate Iran and said a US campaign of "economic pressure" would turn back the Islamic Republic’s aggression, in his second address to the UN General Assembly.

Trump declared that the US, under his leadership, had achieved new economic and military heights. While he ran for office on a promise to "Make America Great Again", he said his accomplishments would benefit the world.

"We’re standing up for America and the American people, and we’re also standing up for the world," he said.

Iran took the place of North Korea as the principal antagonist in Trump’s address. While he had replaced "the spectre of conflict" with North Korea "with a bold and new push for peace", tensions with Iran have grown since the 2015 nuclear deal signed by former president Barack Obama, Trump said.

"We ask all nations to isolate Iran’s regime as long as its aggression continues," he said.

The country’s regime used proceeds from the accord to increase its military budget 40% and strengthen the repression of its people, Trump said, calling the deal "a windfall" for the country’s leaders.

"Iran’s leaders sow chaos, death and destruction," Trump said. "Iran’s leaders plunder the nation’s resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem in the Middle East and far beyond."

But after threatening to "totally destroy" North Korea in his UN speech in 2017, Trump was not as bellicose towards Tehran. "The US has launched a campaign of economic pressure to deny the regime funds it needs to advance its bloody agenda," he said.

Trump began by boasting of his administration’s accomplishments and the strength of the US economy since his election, echoing the campaign speeches he delivers at US rallies. The remarks prompted laughter from the audience.

"Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s OK," Trump said.

He described a US foreign policy he called "principled realism" that would at times reject conventional thinking about international relations. He said US foreign aid would go only "to those who respect us and who are, frankly, are our friends.

"We will not be held hostage to old dogmas, discredited ideologies and so-called experts who have been proven wrong over the years, time and time again," he said.

He singled out China for "abuse" in its trade practices and said countries in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries "are, as usual, ripping off the rest of the world. We defend many of these nations for nothing," he complained.

"We are not going to put up with it, these horrible processes, much longer," he said.

Trump said the US was the largest provider of foreign aid, "but few give anything to us. That is why we are taking a hard look at foreign assistance."

Before his speech, Trump tamped down any speculation of a meeting with Iran’s leader. "Despite requests, I have no plans to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Maybe someday in the future," Trump wrote on Twitter. "I am sure he is an absolutely lovely man!"

As he entered the UN, he told reporters: "We look forward to having a great relationship with Iran but it won’t happen now."

Iranian officials say they have not sought a meeting with Trump and would not agree to one. Ali Akbar Velayati, the foreign policy adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called the idea of a meeting a "frenetic dream" of Trump and his top officials that "will never turn [to] reality", according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.

Trump’s speech repeated 2017’s theme of "sovereignty" as a paramount virtue for nations.

"The US will not tell you how to live or work or worship," he said. "We only ask that you honour our sovereignty in return."

Trump pulled the US out of the 2015 Iranian nuclear accord while signing an agreement in principle with North Korea to abandon its nuclear programme. His "maximum pressure" moniker — previously describing a series of global sanctions against North Korea — has now been fitted to the administration’s approach to Iran.

"We’ve imposed very stringent sanctions on Iran. More are coming," national security adviser John Bolton told reporters on Monday at the UN General Assembly. "And what we expect from Iran is massive changes in their behaviour. And until that happens, we will continue to exert what the president has called ‘maximum pressure’."

On Wednesday Trump is scheduled to host a UN Security Council session focused on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by Iran and other countries.

"You can bet the president will have … strong words for the Iranian regime, which is among the worst of violators of UN Security Council resolutions, if not the absolute worst in the world," secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Monday.

Iran’s Rouhani said in an interview with NBC News on Monday that Trump’s pressure campaign would not bring his government to the negotiating table. The US would have to first rejoin the nuclear accord negotiated by Trump’s predecessor, Obama, he said.

"That bridge must be rebuilt," he said. Meanwhile, Iran can withstand US sanctions, Rouhani said, calling the Trump administration’s threats to choke off his country’s oil exports an "empty promise".

"The US is not capable of bringing our oil exports to zero," he told NBC.

In addition to Trump’s speech and the Security Council session, Bolton and Pompeo were due to address an event on Tuesday afternoon organised by a group called United Against a Nuclear Iran.

The state department will host an event on Friday morning to "call for supporting human rights in Iran". This will feature former Iranian political prisoners and several Trump administration officials.

Trump’s criticism of Iran was not as abrasive as his 2017 UN address, when he branded North Korea’s Kim Jong-un "Rocket Man" and threatened to annihilate the country.

Since that speech, Trump has claimed credit for an easing of tensions between the US and North Korea, which has not tested ballistic missiles or nuclear weapons since late 2017. Trump and Kim have both said that they are eager for a second summit.

Trump spent much of the speech laying out his "America First" world view, including his assertion that all world leaders should put their countries first as sovereign nations. He has framed his decision to pull out of the Iran deal — which retains the support of several US allies and the imprimatur of a UN Security Council resolution — as an issue of US sovereignty.

In the past year, he has moved to limit the US’s role in multilateral institutions, pulling the country from the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. He has levied tariffs on several US trading partners, threatened to withdraw from the World Trade Organisation and warned the International Criminal Court that its officials would be sanctioned if it prosecutes Americans.

Trump said the US will not return to the Human Rights Council "until real reform is enacted".</s>President Donald Trump says 2nd summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un is likely 'quite soon'

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump says 2nd summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un is likely 'quite soon'</s>Trump says he expects second North Korea summit ‘quite soon’

UNITED NATIONS: US President Donald Trump said Monday he expected to meet again soon with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying he saw “tremendous progress” in easing tensions. “It looks like we’ll have a second summit quite soon,” Trump told reporters at the United Nations. “As you know Kim Jong Un wrote a letter — a beautiful letter — asking for a second meeting and we will be doing that,” added Trump, who met with Kim in Singapore in June. He said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — whose last planned visit to Pyongyang was abruptly scuttled by the White House — would arrange the summit “in the immediate future.”</s>UNITED NATIONS: US President Donald Trump said Monday he expected to meet again soon with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying he saw "tremendous progress" in easing tensions.

"It looks like we'll have a second summit quite soon," Trump told reporters at the United Nations.

"As you know Kim Jong Un wrote a letter -- a beautiful letter -- asking for a second meeting and we will be doing that," added Trump, who met with Kim in Singapore in June.</s>US President Donald Trump says the second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is likely to take place "quite soon."

Speaking at the United Nations, Trump says the relationship with the country whose leader he branded last year as "Little Rocket Man" is much improved.

"It was a different world. That was a dangerous time. This is one year later, a much different time," he said.

Trump says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is working out the details for the second Trump-Kim meeting.

Kim requested a second meeting with Trump in a letter this month, and Trump says, "we will be doing that."

Trump is set to meet with South Korea's Moon Jae-in to discuss North Korea and trade details. Moon is expected to convey to Trump a personal message from Kim delivered at their inter-Korean talks last week.

Trump is at the United Nations for his second general assembly meeting with world leaders since taking office and has participated in a counter-narcotics event.</s>US President Donald Trump says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – whose last planned visit to Pyongyang was abruptly scuttled by the White House – would arrange the summit 'in the immediate future'

UNITED NATIONS – US President Donald Trump said on Monday, Spetember 24, he expected to meet again soon with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying he saw "tremendous progress" in easing tensions.

"It looks like we'll have a second summit quite soon," Trump told reporters at the United Nations.

"As you know Kim Jong Un wrote a letter – a beautiful letter – asking for a second meeting and we will be doing that," added Trump, who met with Kim in Singapore in June.

He said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – whose last planned visit to Pyongyang was abruptly scuttled by the White House – would arrange the summit "in the immediate future."

Trump's remarks come one year after he stunned the United Nations General Assembly with a blistering attack on North Korea in his speech, threatening to "totally destroy" the communist state and mocking the projectile-building Kim as "rocket man."

But Trump has since billed his diplomacy with North Korea as a key diplomatic success, saying that risks of a conflict have receded.

"Tremendous progress on North Korea," Trump told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York.

"That was a very dangerous time. This is one year later, a much different time." – Rappler.com</s>U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he expects to hold a second summit with North Korea "quite soon" and hailed the "tremendous progress" made so far.

"The relationship is very good with North Korea. We have many things in store," Trump told reporters at the United Nations in New York. "It looks like we will have a second summit quite soon."

Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Jung had asked for the summit in a "beautiful letter" and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was working out the details.

Pompeo has offered to meet his North Korean counterpart this week in New York where the U.N. General Assembly will take place.

Trump said progress with the north was significant and the relationship was looking "much different" than it did a year ago. He had previously vowed to bring down "fire and fury" on Pyongyang and dubbed Kim "Little Rocket Man."

Trump is set to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in while in New York.

The two Koreas held their own summit last week in North Korea.

The U.S. is looking for Pyongyang to completely denuclearize but North Korea is asking for reciprocal measures from Washington on the Korean peninsula.</s>President Donald Trump said today he expected a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be announced “pretty soon” and the location had yet to be determined.

President Donald Trump said today he expected a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be announced “pretty soon” and the location had yet to be determined.

Trump says expects announcement of new summit with North Korea's Kim 'pretty soon'

Trump, during a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the United Nations, said: “Chairman Kim has been really very open and terrific, frankly. I think he wants to see something happen.”

Moon said he brought Trump a personal message from Kim and that the North Korean leader was hoping to meet with the U.S. president soon.

Trump said he and Moon also had a good discussion on trade between South Korea and the United States.</s>President Trump said on Monday that he is expecting to meet “quite soon” for a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“It’s moving very well. The relationship is very good. We have many things in store. It looks like we’ll have a second summit quite soon,” Trump told reporters as he walked into the United Nations General Assembly.

“As you know Kim Jong Un wrote a letter, a beautiful letter, asking for a second meeting and we will be doing that,” the president continued.

Trump added that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was working out arrangements to have the meeting in the “immediate future.”

“Looks like it’s moving very, very well,” Trump boasted. “Tremendous progress on North Korea since we got here. It was a different world. That was a very dangerous time. This is one year later, a much different time.”

At last year’s United Nations General Assembly, Trump spoke about the threat Kim, who he called “Little Rocket Man,” posed to the world with his nuclear weapons program

The president had his first summit with Kim in Singapore in June and the two agreed to take steps to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons.

Last month, however, Trump canceled Pompeo’s trip to the Hermit Kingdom citing the lack of “sufficient progress” in the talks to get North Korea to denuclearize.

Trump gave brief remarks at the United Nations on Monday, bringing attention to the world’s “scourge of drug addiction.”

He gave a backhanded compliment to U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ leadership of the world body.

“I’ve always said the United Nations has tremendous potential,” Trump said. “Slowly but surely, it is being met.”

Trump will spend the day meeting with world leaders, starting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

Moon is expected to pass along a personal message to Trump from Kim after the two Korean leaders met last week, according to the Associated Press.
US President Donald Trump expects a second summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un "quite soon".