WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Sunday that the congressional questioning last week of his former lawyer may have contributed to the failure of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
- even as his national security advisor claimed the Hanoi meeting was a success.
He said the issue was whether North Korea would accept what the president called "the big deal" - denuclearising completely - or something less, "which was unacceptable to us." According to senior US officials, in the week leading up to the Hanoi summit, the North Koreans had demanded the lifting of effectively all UN Security Council economic sanctions imposed on Pyongyang since March 2016.In return, Pyongyang was offering only to close part of the Yongbyon complex, a sprawling site covering multiple facilities - and the North is believed to have other uranium enrichment plants.
"The president did give up a great deal, by going to that summit, by enhancing Kim Jong Un's prestige on the world stage, by giving up those military exercises in the last summit and getting nothing for it," Schiff told CBS. Bolton said Trump had been clear that Warmbier's death was "barbaric and unacceptable," although Schiff countered that the president's "obsequious comments" had compounded the summit's failure.
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