Newsdeck: North Korea Disputes Trump Claim Kim Sought to End All Sanctions By Bloomberg
During a rare news conference by North Korean officials, Foreign Minister Ri Yong-Ho disputed Trump’s claim that Kim had demanded a complete removal of all economic sanctions, insisting that his nation had “offered a realistic proposal” to begin the process of denuclearization.
Trump ended the summit early and said Kim “wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn’t do that.” In exchange, Trump said the North Korean leader had offered to dismantle its main nuclear facility at Yongbyon. The U.S. presented Kim with evidence of additional secret nuclear sites, surprising the North Koreans, according to Trump. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said that even without Yongbyon, the country would still possess missiles, warheads and other elements of a nuclear program that were unacceptable to the U.S.
The North Korean officials’ hastily arranged news conference was a rare departure for the regime, which usually avoids directly engaging with Western media and communicates through formal statements. They assembled reporters on Friday just after midnight local time. Ri spoke and then Choe, the number two in the ministry, stayed behind afterward for a question and answer session.
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