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Trump enthused: "Kim said he showed off his uncle's beheaded body"
In other excerpts from Bob Woodward's new book, the U.S. president describes his close relationship with the North Korean dictator. "Very offended"?
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Saturday, 12 September 2020, 13:14
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Kim Jong Un has revealed to North Korea officials his uncle's beheaded body after he was executed, US President Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward in other excerpts from his new book published this week.
Zhang Sung Tak, the leader's uncle through marriage and a senior figure in his father's regime, was purged on charges of treason and corruption in 2013.
The move was seen as Kim's attempt to establish his rule mercilessly.
"He tells me everything. He told me everything," Trump Ludward, author of the book "Rage," said in excerpts obtained by AFP.
He said, "He killed his uncle and he put the body on the stairs," said the president, who apparently referred to a building used by senior officials.
"The head was amputated, on the chest."
The North has never officially detailed how Zhang was executed, but according to many reports, airstrikes were used. Trump's remarks, intended to demonstrate the closeness between the two leaders, include for the first time by any official a decapitation of the uncle.
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"You're not ready to make a deal yet. I have to leave."
Trump and Kim (Photo: Reuters)
Trump also referred to the nuclear negotiations stuck between the parties, despite its meetings that have been with Kim since 2018. The president said he demanded that Kim dismantle five nuclear facilities, but the North Korean dictator refused further concessions.
"You're not ready to make a deal yet, I have to leave," Trump told shocked Kim during a summit in Vietnam last year.
Despite high expectations on both sides, the Republican president continued to insist that the communist regime dismantle its entire nuclear program, even after the surprise meeting in the demilitarized zone on the Korean border a few months later.
"It was an honor to cross into your country's territory," Trump wrote to Kim in a letter two days after the meeting, in which he became the first president of the United States to step on North Korean soil.
He urged Beck to sign a "big deal" that would "remove the nuclear burden from you."
It was first revealed that his head had been amputated.
The trial of Zhang Sung Tak (Photo: Reuters)
It's one of 25 letters between the two leaders included in Woodward's new book, revealing the Watergate affair that toppled President Richard Nixon in the 1970s.
Kim has showered much praise on Trump, who has previously stated that the two "fell in love."
However, the North Korean leader did not hide his feelings, even when he was disappointed.
"I was very offended and I do not want to hide that feeling from you. I am very, very hurt," the ruler wrote to Trump after a military exercise between the United States and South Korea that took place a few weeks after the border meeting.
Since then, the two have not met again, talks have not resumed and relations between Pyongyang and Seoul have deteriorated.
Trump, despite all this, insists that his relationship with Kim is still good.
"He likes me. I like him. We get along," he said.
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