Story highlights "What the hell is wrong with speaking?" Trump asked

Trump reassured his supporters that he would not travel to North Korea to meet with Kim

Atlanta (CNN) Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would receive North Korea's dictator for a visit to the United States and again rejected criticism over his willingness to sit down with Kim Jong Un.

"What the hell is wrong with speaking?" Trump asked during a campaign event here, while conceding that he would have a very slim chance of convincing the North Korean leader to abandon his country's nuclear weapons program.

Trump reassured his supporters that he would not travel to North Korea to meet with Kim but would instead host Kim on U.S. soil -- though not with an official state dinner.

"I wouldn't go there, that I can tell you. If he came here, I'd accept him. But I wouldn't give him a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people that rip us off," Trump said before diving into a critique of the tradition of hosting lavish dinners for visiting world leaders.

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