North Korea pours cold water on Kim-Trump meeting as APEC summit looms

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands before their one-on-one chat during the second U.S.-North Korea summit at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi in February 2019. | REUTERS

Nov 4, 2026

The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader has a familiar message for Donald Trump, as the U.S. president angles for a possible meeting with her brother later this month: abandon your “hostile policy” or there will be no sit-down.

The remarks by Kim Yo Jong published Wednesday in North Korean state-run media poured cold water on Trump’s hopes of meeting with her brother later this month on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in China.

“It is our clear stand that we have no need to sit face-to-face with such unreliable and hostile persons who refuse to abandon their policy of confrontation while talking about dialogue,” Kim said, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.

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