Donald Trump suggests China could interfere in US-North Korea talks

In his first remarks on the weekend's diplomatic talks that cast doubt on North Korea's will of Trump said China "could exert negative pressure" in response to punitive US tariffs on Chinese products.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reported on the progress of the first high-level talks since Trump and Kim met in Singapore. although he said that a difficult road remains to be traveled – North Korea has accused him of "gangster diplomacy" after he left Pyongyang.

After the Trump-Kim summit of June 12 in which Kim's crazy Trump said, North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat, although no details were announced.

Pompeo went to Pyongyang in order to "fill" the details of the Korean peninsula. of the agreement. On Monday, he said that he remained "several hours" of negotiations.

"It's time for all of us, the State Department and others to deliver, to implement the agreement between President Trump and President Kim" The troops of the NATO at the end of a visit to Afghanistan

"Thinking that this would happen in a few hours would have been ridiculous," said Pompeo.

Post-summit statements have not said how or when the reclusive state will dismantle its nuclear missile program that is supposed to be able to hit the United States.

Leakage of US intelligence results concluded that North Korea does not intend to completely abandon its nuclear program. Posted by Trump in which he suggested that China could spoil the North Korean talks was another twist in its roller coaster approach to Beijing, a mix of praise and criticism, diplomatic outreach and 39, aggression pure and simple. honor the contract we signed and, more importantly, our handshake. We agreed on the denuclearization of North Korea, "said Trump. China, on the other hand, can exert a negative pressure on an agreement because of our position on Chinese trade-Hope Not! "

China's support for its" maximum pressure "campaign to isolate North Korea, which makes most of its international trade with the Chinese.

While trying to keep the Chinese for the Negotiations in North Korea, Trump has taken a firm stance.Trade with China, striking last week $ 34 billion in Chinese exports to the United States, causing retaliation of Beijing

Pompeo has been criticized by some US media and some observers in Washington for lack of results and acrimony from Pyongyang, but two former US officials who negotiated with North Korea have cast a more positive light on his remarks.

"Pompeo's visit seemed like a useful start to setting the parameters and starting to work." The details of an agreement, "said Joel Wit, founder of the research institute 38 North. "North Koreans have spoken of a simultaneous, vague and progressive approach, which seems to me to be the right way to go forward, but that's the only thing that works. "

for the appointment of a senior special negotiator. He said that Trump should not have said that North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat, an badertion that is "really misleading."

"This leads to the expectation that anyone serious and looking at this process would say that you should"

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