Calm before the storm: Kim and Trump attending the summit at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi. On Trump’s side are (from left) White House national security adviser John Bolton, Pompeo and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. On Kim’s side are North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho and Kim Yong-chol, vice-chairman of the North Korean Workers’ Party Committee. — Reuters
HANOI: The nuclear summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un collapsed after the two sides failed to reach a deal due to a standoff over US sanctions on the reclusive nation, a dispiriting end to high-stakes meetings meant to disarm a global threat.
Trump, in a news conference after the summit abruptly shut down early yesterday, blamed the breakdown on North Korea’s insistence that all punishing sanctions that the United States has imposed on Pyongyang be lifted without the country committing to eliminate its nuclear arsenal.
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