Biden rejects Trump's approach to North Korea, says he won't give Kim Jong-Un 'international recognition'

Biden rejects Trump's approach to North Korea, says he won't give Kim Jong-Un 'international recognition'

President Joe Biden on Friday rejected his predecessor's approach to North Korea and said his goal as president was to achieve a "total denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula, CNBC reports. 

Speaking at a joint press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Biden used the example of former President Donald Trump's high-profile meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to illustrate what he, Biden, would never do.

"If there was a commitment on which we met, then I would meet with [Kim]," said Biden. "And the commitment has to be that there is discussion about his nuclear arsenal."

"What I would not do is what has been done in the recent past," the president said. "I would not give him all he's looking for, international recognition as legitimate, and give him what allowed him to move in a direction of appearing to be more serious about what he wasn't at all serious about."

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