President Donald Trump meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 11, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) 
 
椭圆形办公室
2019年4月11日
特朗普总统：非常感谢你。非常荣幸能邀请到韩国文总统与我们一起，并非常、非常荣幸地邀请到金女士。非常感谢你。非常感谢。我们希望你们在这里过得愉快。
我们正在讨论许多、许多重要的事情，很显然，包括北朝鲜、与北朝鲜的关系。在许多方面，我们的会面很好。我们没有达成我们想要的，但在很多方面，我们——一些事情已经得到了同意。
如你所知，我与金委员长的关系非常好。而且我认为这种关系会继续如此。我们看看吧。我们很可能会知道。但我们会讨论这点。我们会讨论贸易、军事、军事采购。韩国从我们这里购买大量装备，尤其是军事装备。
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我只是真的想告诉你，已经取得了很大的进展，并且在北朝鲜也建立了很好的关系。金正恩真的是一个我非常了解和尊重的人，并且我希望——而且我真的相信，过一段时间，许多重大的事情会发生。
我认为北朝鲜有着巨大的潜力，我相信文总统同意这一点。我们将讨论这一点，甚至是与北朝鲜和金正恩可能召开会议，进一步的会议。
非常感谢你。我必须就再进一步，我想感谢中国，他们真的在边境给了我们很多帮助。我还要感谢俄罗斯，因为他们帮助了我们。在边境，他们对我们的帮助比人们想象的要多得多。所以中国和俄罗斯都非常好。这并不意味着他们不能更好，但他们在边境上相当不错。我只是想感谢这两个国家。
正如我们所说，已经取得了很多进展。我们将进一步对话，并且我期待着对话。我与金正恩的关系一直十分牢固。我与其他人一直有着牢固的关系，但我与金正恩的关系非常、非常好，我想你们看到了。
我们看看会发生什么。希望最终能达成一个对每个人来说都很棒的解决方案，并最终对世界都极好的解决方案。因为它关乎全世界，不止这个区域。它关乎全世界。而且，坦率地说，世界正在关注着。
我想感谢你的领导力。你的领导力一直非常出色。我还期待探讨其他事情，特别是你们正在购买的所有那些装备。在美国我们喜欢这一点。我们喜欢你们购买我们极好的装备。所以，再次非常感谢你。感谢你的领导力。
问：总统先生，关于韩国和北朝鲜的经济项目，你是否愿意留有余地，放宽一些制裁，以便韩国可以寻求与北朝鲜更多的经济项目？
特朗普总统：嗯，我们现在正在讨论一些人道主义事务，说实话，我对此没意见。我想你必须对此没意见。并且韩国正在做一些事情来帮助北朝鲜提供食物和其他各种事情。我们内部将讨论各种不同的事情。
再说一次，这段关系相较于两年前非常不同——你们记得那时都是什么样的——当然还有欧巴马行政当局期间，当时经常有核武器测试，当时在发射火箭和导弹，在很多情况下，飞越日本上空。而我们现在处于非常不同的情形。
所以实际上这一点我们将会讨论非常多。
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问题：总统先生，你有没有考虑与北朝鲜委员长的第三次峰会？还有那也会包括——
特朗普总统：它有可能发生。第三次峰会有可能发生。而它是一步一步的。不是一个快速的进程；我从来没说过它会快。它是一步一步的。
我享受这些峰会。我喜欢与委员长在一起。我认为非常富有成效。的确是——它是一步一步的。它不会进行得很快。很久以来，我一直在告诉你们这一点。如果进行得很快，就不会有合适的协议。
问题：与韩朝双方领导人的三边峰会也是（听不清）？
特朗普总统：嗯，这也可能发生。我认为这将在很大程度上取决于金委员长，因为文总统会做必要的事情。我知道很久以来，文总统一直在奋力而战。他已经做了很棒的工作。我认为他是一位很棒的盟友。
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问题：（通过翻译。）你有多支持我的总统推动经济让步，这包括恢复韩朝间联合工业园，以及或许甚至还有（听不清）？
特朗普总统：嗯，在对的时间，我会有很多支持。现在不是对的时间。但是在对的时间，我在北朝鲜问题上会有很多支持。很多支持。我认为韩国，我认为日本，我认为美国——我认为很多国家会提供帮助。我真的相信中国将会提供帮助。我认为俄罗斯会提供帮助。我认为很多国家会提供帮助。
当达成对的协议，当没有核武器了，那我就认为，在潜力方面，北朝鲜具有的潜力与我见过的任何事物的潜力一样多。他们有着难以置信的地理位置——两侧被大海围绕，而在另一边是俄罗斯、中国，再到这一边是韩国。实在没法比这更好了。还有他们有壮丽的土地。它具有着巨大的潜力。
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问题：你的立场仍然是应该维持对北朝鲜的制裁，直到去核化吗？或者你愿意考虑放宽制裁，让谈判继续？
特朗普总统：不，我们想要维持制裁。坦率地说，我曾经有大幅增加制裁的选择。由于我与金正恩的关系，我不想那样做。我不想那样做。我不认为那是必要的。如你所知，几个星期前，我阻止了它。但我认为制裁现在处于一个公平的水平。我真的相信非常重大的事情将要发生。我们总能增加制裁，但我在这个时候不想那样做。

Excerpts President Trump Remarks 
Oval Office
April 11, 2019
PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Thank you very much.  It’s a great honor to have President Moon of South Korea with us and a very, very great privilege to have Mrs. Kim.  Thank you very much.  Very much.  We hope you enjoy your stay.
We are discussing many, many important things, including, obviously, North Korea, the relationships with North Korea.  I had, in many respects, a very good meeting.  We did not fulfill what we wanted to, but in many ways, we — certain things were agreed to.
My relationship is very good with, as you know, Chairman Kim.  And I think that it will go on that way.  We’ll see.  We’ll probably know.  But we’ll be discussing that.  We’ll be discussing trade, military, military purchases.  South Korea buys a great deal of equipment from us, especially military equipment.
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I just do want to tell you that great progress has been made and a great relationship has been made in North Korea too.  Kim Jong Un has been, really, somebody that I’ve gotten to know very well and respect, and hopefully — and I really believe that, over a period of time, a lot of tremendous things will happen.
I think North Korea has a tremendous potential, and I believe that President Moon agrees with that.  And we will be discussing that and even potential meetings, further meetings, with North Korea and Kim Jong Un.
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Thank you very much.  I have to go just one step further and I want to thank China, who’s really helped us a lot at the border.  I also want to thank Russia because they have helped us, and they’ve helped us quite a bit more than people think, at the border.  So both China and Russia have really been quite good.  That doesn’t mean they can’t get better, but they’ve been quite good at the border.  And I just want to thank both of those countries.
As we’ve said, a lot of progress has been made.  We will have further dialogue and I look forward to it.  My relationship with Kim Jong Un has been a very strong relationship.  I’ve had some very strong relationships with others, but I have a very, very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, and I think you see that.
And we’ll see what happens.  Hopefully, it will end up in a great solution for everybody, and ultimately a great solution for the world.  Because it is about the world.  It’s more than just this area.  It’s about the world.  And, frankly, the world is watching.
I want to thank you for your leadership.  Your leadership has been outstanding.  And I look forward to talking about other things also, and in particular, all of that equipment that you’re buying.  We like that in the United States.  We like that you buy our great equipment.  So again, thank you very much.  And thank you for your leadership.
Q    Mr. President, on economic projects for South Korea and North Korea, are you willing to allow some leeway in relaxing sanctions so that South Korea can pursue some more economic projects with North Korea?
PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, we are discussing certain humanitarian things right now, and I’m okay with that, to be honest.  I think you have to be okay with that.  And South Korea is doing certain things to help out with food and various other things for North Korea.  And we’ll be discussing different things inside.
Again, the relationship is a much different relationship than it was two years ago — you remember what that was all about — and certainly during the Obama administration, where nuclear weapons were being tested often, where rockets and missiles were being sent up, in many cases, over Japan.  And we are in a much different situation right now.
So we’ll be discussing that very much, actually.
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Q    Mr. President, do you have the third summit with North Korea’s Chairman in mind?  And does that also include —
PRESIDENT TRUMP:  It could happen.  A third summit could happen.  And it’s step by step.  It’s not a fast process; I’ve never said it would be.  It’s step by step.
I enjoy the summits.  I enjoy being with the Chairman.  I think it’s been very productive.  And it really is — it’s a step by step.  It’s not going to go fast.  I’ve been telling you that for a long time.  If it goes fast, it’s not going to be the proper deal.
Q    Is a three-way summit with the leaders of the two Koreas also (inaudible)?
PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, that could happen also.  I think that would be largely dependent on Chairman Kim, because President Moon will do what’s necessary.  I know President Moon has been fighting this battle for a long time.  He’s done an excellent job.  I consider him a great ally.
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Q    (As interpreted.)  How much do you support my President’s push for economic concessions, which include the resumption of the joint inter-Korean industrial complex and perhaps even the (inaudible)?
PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, at the right time, I would have great support.  This isn’t the right time.  But at the right time, I’d have great support with North Korea.  Great support.  I think that South Korea, and I think Japan, and I think that the U.S. — I think a lot of countries will be helping.  China, I really believe, will help.  I think that Russia will help.  I think a lot of countries will help.
When the right deal is made, and when the nuclear weapons are gone, I just think that North Korea has potential as great as anything I’ve ever seen in terms of potential.  They have an unbelievable location — surrounded by sea on two sides, and on the other side, Russia, China, and over here, South Korea.  You just can’t do better than that.  And they have magnificent land.  It has tremendous potential.
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Q    Is your position still that sanctions should stay in place on North Korea until there is denuclearization?  Or are you willing to consider easing sanctions to keep the talks going?
PRESIDENT TRUMP:  No, we want sanctions to remain in place.  And frankly, I had the option of significantly increasing them.  I didn’t want to do that because of my relationship with Kim Jong Un.  I did not want to do that.  I didn’t think it was necessary.  As you know, a couple of weeks ago, I held it back.  But I think that sanctions are, right now, at a level that’s a fair level.  And I really believe something very significant is going to happen.  We could always increase them, but I didn’t want to do that at this time.