A high-stakes second meeting to strike a nuclear disarmament deal between the North's leader Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump broke up in disarray Thursday, without even a joint statement.
WASHINGTON - US national security advisor John Bolton denied Sunday that last week's nuclear summit with North Korea was a failure, despite President Donald Trump coming home empty-handed.
The White House aide said the issue was whether North Korea would accept what the president called "the big deal" -- denuclearizing completely or something less, "which was unacceptable to us." Others pointed to a lack of preparation, with the two sides unable to bridge the gaps between them in time. After returning to Washington, the US president tweeted Friday that his relations with Kim were "very good".
Bolton repeated the US position that it would help North Korea's economic progress if it committed to complete denuclearization and closing its chemical and biological weapons programs.
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