President Trump said: “I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un”

Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump have a “very good relationship”, the US president suggested last night, in remarks that appeared to signal a new openness to diplomacy with North Korea.

“I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un,” Mr Trump told The Wall Street Journal. “I have relationships with people. I think you people are surprised.”

Asked if he had spoken with Kim, Mr Trump said: “I don’t want to comment on it. I’m not saying I have or haven’t. I just don’t want to comment.”

His remarks marked a cooling in rhetoric from Mr Trump, who had previously discounted the value of talks with the North. Last summer he called Kim a “maniac” while threatening Pyongyang with “fire and fury”. Kim