'Sometimes you have to walk,' the president said at a news conference after denuclearization talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were unexpectedly cut short
At the press conference Thursday, Trump was pressed over whether he had confronted Kim about the death of Otto Warmbier, an American who was arrested while traveling in North Korea and later returned to the U.S. in a vegetative state before dying. Trump said Kim claimed ignorance about the situation — a denial the president accepted.
While the pair signed a statement pledging to work toward total denuclearization on the peninsula, it did not contain a framework or specific time frame to achieve that goal. What’s more, outside analysts, as well as, say that in the wake of that first summit, North Korea has done little to get rid of its nuclear program.
Still, the two sides have long seemed at odds over when the U.S. would agree to roll back sanctions — with North Korea wanting some penalties lifted in exchange for incremental denuclearization steps, and the U.S. urging full denuclearization before offering any economic relief. It was that disagreement that derailed talks on Thursday.
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