Analysis: What actually went wrong for Trump and Kim Jong Un
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet in Hanoi on Thursday. By Adam Taylor Adam Taylor Foreign reporter who writes about a variety of subjects Email Bio Follow March 1 at 12:25 PM President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi this week was supposed to iron out some of the details of the historic — though remarkably vague — agreement the two leaders had reached when they met in Singapore on June 12.
Closing Yongbyon would be a big deal, but exactly how it is closed and even what is defined as the site would need to be worked out. There’s a difference between North Korea agreeing to freeze production at the site, for example, and letting in foreign inspectors who could verify that the site has been permanently dismantled.
This satellite image taken Feb. 21 shows the five-megawatt reactor, center, at North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center. What did it want in return? Still, the partial relief that Kim may have sought from Trump appears to have been substantial. Rather than focusing on the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States, North Korea appears to be focused on the sanctions installed by the U.N. Security Council in recent years. Of the 11 resolutions that have imposed sanctions on North Korea since 2006, Ri said North Korea was focused on only the most recent five, which were installed in 2016 and 2017.
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