Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un ended early with no joint agreement Thursday.
President Donald Trump’s much-fêted summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended early and in disappointment Thursday, as the U.S. delegation announced it had been unable to reach any concrete deal on denuclearization with the authoritarian state.
A working lunch was canceled, a joint declaration scrapped and Trump’s press conference moved up several hours. He then told assembled journalists that no deal had been agreed, and that “sometimes you have to walk.”Reactions from North Korea watchers, foreign policy wonks and the media have ranged from surprise that so much effort went into an apparent failure to fatalist analysis suggesting the summit was doomed given the clear discrepancy between the two sides’ negotiating positions.
“We’ve been papering over the differences for so long, at some point the bill was going to come due,” he told Newsweek. “You could get to Hanoi by papering over the differences,” Narang added. “Still a lot of room to make progress”Some of the details of the talks indicate that progress is being made. Kim, for example, reportedly offered to close the Yongbyon nuclear research site if sanctions were lifted. Though the U.S. representatives rebuffed the suggestion, the offer is highly significant, according to RAND Corporation Senior Political Scientist Michael Mazarr.
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