U.S. President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brush aside North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s deadline for nuclear talks flexibility by davidbrunnstrom mattspetalnick
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday brushed aside North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s demand for Washington to show more flexibility in nuclear talks by year-end, with Pompeo saying Kim should keep his promise to give up his nuclear weapons before then.
But Pompeo said Kim had made a commitment to denuclearize and “we collectively need to see that outcome move forward.” The Hanoi talks collapsed after Trump proposed a “big deal” in which sanctions would be lifted if North Korea handed over all its nuclear weapons to the United States. He rejected partial denuclearization steps offered by Kim.
Kim said his personal relationship with Trump was still good, but that he had no interest in a third summit if it were a repeat of Hanoi. “Talk is OK. Talk is OK,” Trump said adding that he did not want the process to move fast. “It doesn’t have to move fast. Right now it’s moving along just perfectly. And we have a good relationship, the sanctions are on ... there’s a lot of constructive things going on.”
At a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Washington last Thursday, Trump expressed a willingness for a third summit with Kim but said Washington would leave sanctions in place.
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