Trump-Kim Talk Fails, as Both Disagree on the Nuclear Sanctions
The meeting between the two leaders was building on the success of their first historic summit in Singapore, but this time both the leaders failed to sign a joint statement and thus the talks ended in a deadlock
The much-anticipated meeting between the United States and North Korea in Vietnam ended abruptly without any deal as both the leaders, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are reluctant on their stand on nuclear disarmament. Though President Donald Trump claimed he has decided to walk out of the summit, as Kim Jong-un is not ready for the sanctions.
The meeting between the two leaders was building on the success of their first historic summit in Singapore, but this time both the leaders failed to sign a joint statement and thus the talks ended in a deadlock.
Unusually downbeat US President Donald Trump later told reporters, “Sometimes you have to walk and this was just one of those times. Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that”. But Trump says he was “optimistic that the progress we made and was in a position to have a really good outcome” in the future.
Trump also accused Kim of not agreeing to his demand to stop nuclear or ballistic missile testing by North Korea, which in earlier talks Kim only has identified as a yardstick for the success of talks between the two countries.
Trump is still optimistic though he said a third summit with the Korean strongman was not on the cards for now. As he says, “We just like each other... there’s a warmth that we have and I hope that stays, I think it will”.
According to the original White House programme, a Joint Agreement Signing Ceremony had been scheduled in Hanoi as well as a working lunch for the two leaders. But unfortunately, both the leaders left the summit venue without signing any agreement and two hours later Trump moved up his news conference.
In order to meet Kim, US President Donald Trump flew around the world, meanwhile Kim undertook a long two-and-a-half-day journey through China in his olive green train, travelling around 4,000 kilometres.
Last year in Singapore, both the leaders signed a document in which Kim has pledged to “work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”. But in later months, progress subsequently stalled, as both the leaders disagreeing to each others' terms and conditions. North Korea sought relief from the US sanctions accusing Washington of forcibly pressing it to give up its weapons.
Though still there are hopes that talk may again resume, but for now, the summit between the United States and North Korea stands failed.
