More than a year of preparation and promise dissolve as Trump walks away from denuclearization talks with Kim
President Donald Trump walks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a break in talks at the second U.S.-North Korea summit at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on Feb. 28, 2019.For more than a year, U.S. President Donald Trump was confident he could personally achieve a Herculean feat of diplomacy: Convincing a country to give up its nuclear weapons. He would do it, he believed, through the sheer strength of his bargaining skills.
The President told reporters Mr. Kim was willing to close Yongbyon, a major nuclear facility that produced material for the country’s bomb tests, but refused to shut down other nuclear sites or get rid of his existing warheads and missiles. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho later insisted Pyongyang had not asked for all sanctions to be lifted. Rather, he claimed, North Korea offered to shutter Yongbyon “in the presence of U.S. experts” in exchange for an end to some sanctions on the country’s civilian economy.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, said Thursday that she was “glad that the President walked away from” a bad deal with Pyongyang. But she argued Mr. Trump had already given Mr. Kim a propaganda coup by treating him as an equal. “This is pure Trump. ‘I’m the deal-maker, I’m going to get everybody in the room and I’m going to bend them to my will.’ And it didn’t work,” she said.
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