Trump said that talks would continue. But the president wouldn’t commit to holding a third summit after two high-profile meetings have failed to produce a concrete agreement on rolling back North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
The summit did elevate Kim for the second time in nine months, placing him side by side with the U.S. president on the world stage — their faces painted on city walls and screened onto souvenir T-shirts, their country's flags flying together from lampposts, the imagery of their easy interactions broadcast live around the world.The once-reclusive autocrat arrived in Vietnam by train, preferring the long two-day journey from Pyongyang to flying.
Later, Kim responded to another question about whether he was willing to denuclearize. “If I was not, I wouldn’t be here,” he said. “I don't want to put myself in that position from the standpoint of negotiation,” Trump said at Thursday’s news conference — a remarkable departure from Pompeo’s statement last year that “Trump said Kim assured him that North Korea would continue athat has been in place since April 2018. That followed a provocative series of nearly 23 North Korean missile launches over 10 months, including an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed in Japanese territory.
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