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orth Korea had the more accurate take on what happened at the summit with President Donald Trump before talks failed, according to an official with the U.S. State Department. The president claimed Thursday that he had walked away from negotiations in Hanoi after Kim Jong Un demanded that all sanctions against the nation be lifted. “Basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn’t do that,” Trump said. “We had to walk away from that.” But Pyongyang representatives called a late night news conference later that day to correct Trump’s statements, saying that Kim wanted only economic...

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...

The opening of today's Morning Joe served up a double-barreled surprise. First, rather than beginning with Michael Cohen's congressional testimony yesterday, the show began with a discussion of President Trump's Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, in which the President walked away without signing an agreement. The second surprise: rather than trashing Trump for a failed summit, etc., Joe Scarborough and David Ignatius of The Washington Post actually praised the President. Scarborough said that Trump achieved "the best of all circumstances." Ignatius agreed, adding, "as President Trump said, 'sometimes you have to walk.'"Get the rest of the story and view...

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