'It was about the sanctions,' Trump responded when asked why he and North Korea's Kim weren't able to reach a deal in their highly touted summit.
President Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came to an abrupt and early end without a deal between the two countries on Thursday. During a press conference after the talks concluded in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, Trump described them as a “very productive time.” However, the president also said that he “felt that It wasn’t a good thing to be signing” an agreement.
Trump indicated the failure to reach a deal stemmed from disagreements over U.S. sanctions against North Korea. The summit in Hanoi was the second meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un following a summit in Singapore last June. He is the first sitting U.S. president to meet with a North Korean leader since 1948, when the Korean Peninsula was divided and Kim’s family established a Stalinist regime. For most of the ensuing 70 years, the U.S. has technically been at war with North Korea, because the Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice rather than a formal peace treaty.
Trump was asked whether he would ultimately be willing to allow Kim to keep “some nukes” and he was noncommittal while insisting progress has been made. “This wasn’t a walk away like you get up and walk out. … We shook hands,” Trump said, adding, “There’s a warmth that we have now. I hope that stays. I think it will.”
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