The summit between Trump and Kim has ended in failure and an abrupt end

The summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Joun-a ended in a fiasco without agreement or roadmap to follow.

At the historic meeting in Hanoi, the US president said his North Korean counterpart called for the end of all sanctions imposed.

"We could have signed an agreement, but I did not think it was appropriate," Trump said at a press conference intended to launch agreements, although he finally mentioned the explanations for this failure.

According to Trump, North Korea had agreed to dismantle its Yongbyon nuclear center, the historic core of its weapons program, in exchange for lifting all sanctions imposed on that country. Something the United States did not want to give. And Pyongyang refused to include other nuclear facilities, as requested by Washington.

"They were willing to denuclearize a lot of the areas we wanted, but not all of them, so we had to get up off the table," said the president.

Singapore to Hanoi

Its first summit in Singapore, eight months ago, ended with a vague statement on "the denuclearization of the North Korean Peninsula", but without concrete commitments, and badysts felt that it was necessary that the two leaders progress in this new meeting.

Since June, the diplomacy between the two leaders, who can not agree on the meaning of this statement, is stagnant.

"Speed ​​for me does not matter," said Trump today, as he came back to sit down face to face with Kim, baduring that the result will be visible "long term".

North Korea is subject to many sanctions because of its nuclear program, which is causing a spike in tension in 2017 before reaching a detente.

For its part, Kim Jong Un pointed out that there are "people who look with skepticism" during his meeting in the Vietnamese capital, but who promised "to get a good result, good last spring".

For the moment, there is no date for a new meeting of the two leaders and the feeling is that Hanoi has remained a missed opportunity that may no longer be presented. (The New., The Country and AFP-NA)