A special summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: ended abruptly, "very friendly" and without agreement

The second summit between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un focused on denuclearization of the Asian country, ended abruptly this Thursday in Hanoi without agreement Because, according to the US president, Pyongyang wanted to lift all the sanctions imposed by his nuclear program. However, Washington does not want to give in on this point.

The goal of the summit was to finalize the results of its first historic meeting in June in Singapore, but Kim and Trump they could not agree on the joint declaration initially predicted. Although, according to Trump, the end of the summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, was still "very nice".

"Sometimes you have to leave, and that's one of those situations," Trump told reporters, unusually pessimistic, at the end of the meeting. "Basically, they wanted to lift all the sanctions and we could not do it," he said.

The US president however insisted that he was "optimistic that the advances" made before and during the summit left them "in a position to get a very good result" in the future. "I'd rather do it right than do it fast"he insisted.

Trump said Kim promised not to resume missile testing ballistic or nuclear, but said that, for the moment, a third summit with the North Korean leader was not planned, despite the "cordiality" which, according to him, exists between them.

"Simply we love you. There is a cordiality between us and I hope it will last, "said the Republican.

The result of Hanoi was very far from the expectations of the meeting, after a first summit which, according to his critics, was formal and vague in its content.

The two leaders left the hotel in Hanoi where the summit was held after suspend the planned public signing ceremony and Trump presented his press conference for two hours, raising doubts about progress.

At the start of this second day of negotiations, he had already stated that he was in no hurry to reach an agreement on the North Korean nuclear program and had left Vietnam without him.

The first Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, eight months ago, concluded with a vague statement on "the denuclearization of the North Korean Peninsula", but without concrete commitments, and badysts have seen the need to move ahead. in this new meeting.

Since June, the disagreement between the two leaders over the meaning of this declaration had reached a stalemate.

Kim said Thursday that he was ready to eliminate nuclear weapons. "If it was not the case, I would not be here," he told a reporter when he was asked questions about it. However, North Korea understands denuclearization in a broader sense and calls for end of sanctions and what she considers to be American threats: she military presence in South Korea and in the region in general.

Republican says "gap" separates Washington and Pyongyang positions it will eventually outgrow "over time". Trump said the United States was willing to help North Korea, even economically, and pointed out that other countries, such as China and Japan, certainly would.

At the beginning of the meeting, Trump promised again his "friend Kim Jong-a"A spectacular economic development if North Korea gives up its arsenal, giving the example of Vietnam, communist country that has adopted the market economy and left behind the confrontation with the United States.

"Vietnam is progressing like few places in the world, North Korea would do the same – and very quickly – if it decided to get rid of its nuclear arsenal," Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to a "SUPER" future for the hermetic regime.

The US president also praised "the help" brought to the process with North Korea, not only South Korea, but also China, Japan and Russia.

For his part, Trump claimed that he was maintaining his decision announced at the Singapore summit to suspend joint military maneuvers with South Korea, arguing that they "are very expensive."

In addition, Trump said that he had dealt with Kim the case of the American Otto Warmbier, a university student arrested in North Korea and to whom the North Korean regime had allowed his return in the United States in 2017 because he was in a coma and had died a few days later.

According to the president, the North Korean leader "did not know" the case of Warmbier and learned a posteriori, but "felt bad" about what happened. Trump, who said he believed Kim's version, acknowledged that the case was "terrible" and attributed what happened to "prisons are terrible places".