Amid stalled North Korea nuclear talks, Pres. Trump welcomes South Korean Pres. Moon Jae-in after Hanoi summit collapse.
with North Korea's Kim Jong Un abruptly ended without a deal, Moon will be pushing to keep the momentum going and keep Trump engaged, according to South Korean officials.
"President Moon wants that momentum would be restored and both parties, the U.S. and North Korea, would work closely within the existing framework of dialogue and negotiation, and he wants that they would come up with some kind of new interim agreement," said Chung-in.
President Donald Trump looks towards North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their one-on-one bilateral meeting at the second North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, Feb. 28, 2019. The Trump administration has been firm since then that there will be no sanctions relief until North Korea denuclearizes -- while Kim's advisers have said publicly that they will not change their position, intent on getting sanctions relief first. Kim himself said Thursday that his regime would "deal a blow to those bent on the misjudgment that they can bring us to our knees with sanctions," according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
"My concern is that Korean government might focus again on the importance of lifting of sanctions to bring North Korea back to the table," said Shin Beom Chol, director of North Korean Military Studies at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul. "That’s a kind of point of collision between the United States and Korean governments" because the U.S.
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