The US-North Korea nuclear summit in Hanoi ended abruptly without a deal on Thursday, with President Trump saying he had decided to “walk” in the face of Kim Jong-un’s demands to drop sanctions.
“Sometimes you have to walk and this was just one of those times,” an unusually downbeat Trump told reporters.
The leaders walked away with no set plans for a third meeting, though Trump said he hopes to see Kim again soon. “This is a major failure,” tweeted Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund peace foundation, saying it showed the limit of summitry, with “not enough time or staff” to work out a deal.
From the outset, he had appeared to downplay expectations of an immediate breakthrough in nuclear talks, saying he was in “no rush” to clinch a rapid deal and was content if a pause in missile testing continued. Progress subsequently stalled, with the two sides disagreeing on what that means, as the North sought relief from sanctions and Washington pressed for concrete steps towards it giving up its weapons.
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