US President Donald Trump on Monday spoke the troops stationed in South Korea and asked them about North Korean leader Kim Jon Un.
Chatting to the military via video conferencing at his inaugural ball, Trump asked, ‘Hello everybody how we doing over there? How’s Kim Jung Un doing?”
During the conversation, Trump referred to the Korean leader as a ‘tough cookie’ with ‘bad intentions’ and claimed that he developed a pretty good relations with Un during his previous term.
“Could I ask you how is it going in South Korea right now? How’s it doing you have somebody with pretty bad intentions I guess” Trump asked.
“You would say that although I developed a pretty good relationship with him but he’s a tough cookie,” he added.
“Every day we train, we stay hard and we plan for anything that you possibly could need us to do. The alliance is strong and we’re ready to receive you Mr President,” one of the troop responded.
During his first term in the Oval office, Trump held three high-profile meetings with Kim in Singapore, Hanoi, and at the Korean border. He also became the first US president to set foot in North Korea.
Donald Trump has also said earlier that the North Korean leader and him “fell in love” after exchanging letters.
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. US Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to Trump.
Prior to Trump’s swearing-in, JD Vance was sworn in as the 50th US Vice-President. After taking the oath, Trump declared that the “golden age” of America had begun and today marks the ‘Liberation Day’ for the country
He is also just the second president in US history to return to power after being voted out, after Grover Cleveland in 1893.