Friend Or Foe? Trump Takes On Allies As He Warms Up To North Korea

President Trump walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday on Sentosa Island in Singapore.

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Updated 11:45 a.m. ET

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un heads a brutally oppressive regime. But since meeting face-to-face with Kim, President Donald Trump has had kind words for the dictator.

“Well, he is very talented. Anybody that takes over a situation like he did, at 26 years of age, and is able to run it, and run it tough — I don’t say he was nice or I don’t say anything about it — he ran it,” Trump told reporters at a press conference in Singapore Tuesday.