Trump denies saying he probably had good relationship with Kim

PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday questioned a daily paper's record of a meeting with him a week ago in which he was cited as saying he presumably has a decent association with North Korean pioneer Kim Jong Un. 

Trump said in tweets that in the Wall Street Journal meet on Thursday, he said "I'd most likely" have a decent association with Kim, utilizing a restrictive tense. 

The White House discharged a segment of the sound from the meeting that it said indicated Trump said "I'd." The Wall Street Journal discharged its own sound that it said moved down its form of the occasions. 

The Trump remark was key since it recommended he believes he has a decent association with Kim, who has opposed worldwide strain to remain down from a progression of atomic and ballistic rocket tests. 

Trump has scorned the North Korean pioneer as an "insane person" and alluded to him as "little rocket man." Kim has reacted by calling the U.S. president a "rationally disturbed U.S. dotard." 

Kim has cautioned the United States that he means to construct an atomic weapons store equipped for hitting the United States, provoking dangers of military activity by Washington. 

In the Wall Street Journal talk with, Trump was asked whether he has talked with the North Korean pioneer. 

"I would prefer not to remark on it. I'm not saying I have or haven't. I simply would prefer not to remark," he had said. 

Trump is spending a long end of the week at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. 

"Clearly I didn't state that," tweeted Trump. "I said 'I'd have a decent association with Kim Jong Un,' a major distinction. Luckily we now record discussions with correspondents ... what's more, they knew precisely what I said and implied. They simply needed a story. Counterfeit NEWS!" 

A White House official said the deferral in openly questioning the Journal's record was the consequence of a fizzled endeavor to get the paper to adjust the record. 

"The reason there was a postponement is on account of we had a few calls and messages with WSJ, beginning Friday morning, requesting that they issue a rectification. They declined thus we pushed out our own illumination," the authority said