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Post by Admin on Feb 28, 2019 17:29:53 GMT
The White House has announced that no agreement was reached in Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un. The President will brief the media before departing Hanoi.
With the summit coming to a dramatic but also lacklustre end - and with both Trump and Kim Jong-un headed now home with little to show for their meetings - we are going to close the liveblog. Thanks for following along today, it’s been a wild ride.
Donald Trump has said that a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un broke down over the issue of sanctions, after the talks in Vietnam ended early with no deal.
“It was about the sanctions basically,” Trump said at a press conference in Hanoi. “They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that ... Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times.”
The US president said that Kim had offered to dismantle some parts of his nuclear infrastructure, including the Yongbyon nuclear complex, but was not prepared to destroy other parts of the programme, including covert uranium plants.
“There is a gap. We have to have sanctions,” Trump said. “They were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas we wanted but we couldn’t give up all the sanctions for that.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 1, 2019 17:27:17 GMT
President Trump was back in Washington on Friday morning, facing conflicting accounts of why his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke down. The president said he walked away from the table because Kim wanted complete sanctions relief. But in a rare press conference overnight, North Korean officials said they only wanted some sanctions lifted.
CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett reports that on his way back to Washington, the president made a refueling stop in Alaska and thanked U.S. service members at an Air Force base, but he did not discuss his summit with Kim, which was abruptly cut short on Thursday.
Earlier President Trump said that the offer put forth by North Korea in Hanoi included them dismantling their central nuclear research and development facility in exchange for complete sanctions relief.
Resolution 2094, passed in March 2013 after the third nuclear test, imposed sanctions on money transfers and aimed to shut North Korea out of the international financial system.[4][2]
Resolution 2270, passed in March 2016 after the fourth nuclear test, further strengthened existing sanctions.[8] It banned the export of gold, vanadium, titanium, and rare earth metals. The export of coal and iron were also banned, with an exemption for transactions that were purely for "livelihood purposes."[9][2]
Resolution 2321, passed in November 2016, capped North Korea's coal exports and banned exports of copper, nickel, zinc, and silver.[10][11] In February 2017, a UN panel said that 116 of 193 member states had not yet submitted a report on their implementation of these sanctions, though China had.[12]
Resolution 2371, passed in August 2017, banned all exports of coal, iron, lead, and seafood. The resolution also imposed new restrictions on North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank and prohibited any increase in the number of North Koreans working in foreign countries.[13]
Resolution 2375, passed on 11 September 2017, limited North Korean crude oil and refined petroleum product imports; banned joint ventures, textile exports, natural gas condensate and liquid imports; and banned North Korean nationals from working abroad in other countries.[14]
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Post by Admin on Mar 2, 2019 17:31:03 GMT
 The United States and South Korea are expected to announce in the coming days that annual military exercises between the two nations are to be scaled back, according to a US defense official. The large-scale military exercises, known as Foal Eagle and Key Resolve, had been scheduled for this spring. Now, according to the official, the US and South Korea will instead conduct scaled down exercises at a small unit level that could involve virtual training. Defense officials say they can achieve the necessary training goals through the pared down exercises. The announcement is expected to come shortly, following President Donald Trump’s decision to walk away from negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam. It can be seen as a good faith gesture of Washington’s intent to continue engagement with Pyongyang, analysts said, but also as a way of reducing the possibility of incidents that escalate out of control. The US has already suspended several larger military exercises as part of an effort to ease tensions with North Korea following the last year’s Singapore summit between the two leaders. The pending decision to pare back exercises represents the continued restraint both sides have demonstrated after the Singapore meeting, said Scott Snyder, a senior fellow for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. |
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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2019 17:16:21 GMT
 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) needled President Trump Thursday after the collapse of his talks with Kim Jong Un, suggesting it shouldn’t have taken him so long to recognize the North Korean leader is not serious about denuclearization. “I guess it took two meetings for him to realize that Kim Jong Un is not on the level,” Pelosi told reporters at her weekly news conference. “The prospect for success seemed dim in light of the insincerity of Kim Jong Un.” Trump’s meeting with Kim in Hanoi was abruptly cut short after he and Trump were unable to reach a deal to dismantle Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons. |
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Post by Admin on Mar 4, 2019 20:26:35 GMT
Here are some of the lighter moments from the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi. The highlights include jogging bodyguards, a Kim Jong-un lookalike being deported and Kim having a smoke break as his sister holds a crystal ashtray.  Also we see Trump frantically waving a Vietnam flag and seemingly understanding Kim's jokes, even though Korean leader spoke in his native tongue. We see the pair enjoying a 'private dinner' in front of the gathered media, including one of the "world's greatest photographers". After the summit ended with no agreement we see Trump having an awkward moment with a bunch of flowers then stumbling slightly as enters Air Force One. :format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/63205691/1127802786.jpg.0.jpg) |
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