Trump says U.S. in contact with Kim Jong Un amid China state visit

U.S. President Donald Trump said he has kept in touch with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while wrapping up his two-day state visit to China on Friday and once again noted his “good” ties with Kim.

“You know I have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un,” Trump said in the last minute of his talk with pool reporters aboard Air Force One before departing from Beijing following his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

While Trump and Xi discussed the Korean Peninsula, it was far from being a central topic of the summit, with questions of bilateral