Posted on 02/28/2019 5:54:44 PM PST by mdittmar
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — In open dispute, the U.S. and North Korea offered contradictory accounts Thursday of why the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un broke down, though both pointed to punishing American sanctions as a sticking point in the high-stakes nuclear negotiation.
President Trump, on his way back to Washington on Thursday, said before leaving Hanoi that the talks collapsed because North Korea’s leader insisted that all the sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Pyongyang be lifted without the North firmly committing to eliminate its nuclear arsenal.
But North Korea challenged that account, insisting it had asked only partial sanctions relief in exchange for shutting down its main nuclear complex. Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho commented on the talks during an abruptly scheduled middle-of-the-night news conference after Trump was in the air.
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Here we go
Hardly surprising.
It didn’t happen. Worse things could have happened.
Both sides said progress was made.
Leave it to the press to overlook that little fact.
DNC and the media complex were against nukes before they were for them.
President Trump Participates in an Expanded Bilateral Meeting (WH Youtube channel - 4:16)
The press does what it can to cause problems. It's sad that there are only a little over 6k views.
China’s instructions to Kim.
Trump walks in and the Young un was sitting on the floor sucking his big toe and Trump said ,OK that’s it I’m out
I would guess that the Norks made BOTH arguments, at different points of the discussion...
The family Kim has ‘played’ successive American administrations from their early beginnings.
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