Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth. North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize. The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un. We will know fairly soon - Very Interesting!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is the big winner of the second summit with President Donald Trump
Thursday, February 28, 2019
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| House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump |
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| Trump and Kim sit down to take a few questions from the press before dinner on February 27. "I think you will have a tremendous future for your country, you're a great leader," Trump told Kim. "We will help it to happen."
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VietPress USA (Feb. 28, 2019): According to CNN, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued on Thursday that Kim Jong Un was "a big winner" in the latest negotiations between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader since he once again had the opportunity to "sit face to face" with the President of the United States, but she said that Trump did the right thing by ultimately walking away from the talks.
The President has been in Hanoi, Vietnam, for a summit that ended with no joint agreementbetween the US and North Korea after Kim insisted all US sanctions be lifted on his country.
"What we want is denuclearization," Pelosi said at her weekly news conference, referring to the US goal of getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. "They didn't agree to it in the first meeting. They didn't agree to it in the second meeting. They wanted lifting sanctions without denuclearization. I'm glad that the President walked away from that."
Trump said that Kim offered to take some steps toward dismantling his nuclear arsenal, but not enough to warrant ending sanctions imposed on the country.
"Sometimes you have to walk," Trump said during a news conference following the conclusion of the summit, which broke up earlier than planned. "This was just one of those times."
But said to reporters, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi highlighted that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is the "big winner" of the summit with President Donald Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Pelosi: Kim Jong Un the 'big winner' of summit with Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was relieved that President Trump didn’t make a one-sided deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at their summit in Vietnam, but that even holding a second meeting with Kim amounted to handing a victory to the dictator.
“I guess it took two meetings to realize Kim Jong Un is not on the level,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters in Washington. “He was a big winner, Kim Jong Un, in getting to sit face to face with the most powerful person in the world, the president of the United States.”
Trump, who abruptly left the summit Friday without reaching a deal for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, had gone into the meetings full of praise for Jong Un, who he portrayed as his “friend.”
Trump also criticized Democrats who had warned the president not to trust Kim at the two leaders’ second face-to-face meeting.
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American foreign policy experts had warned of the danger that Trump, who seemed to revel in the pageantry of his earlier summit with Kim, might be tempted to give away too much in exchange for too little.
Pelosi said she was not surprised that the president was returning without a landmark deal to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
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“Diplomacy is important, we always support it, but the prospect of success seemed dim in light of the insincerity of Kim Jong Un,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi also scoffed at Trump’s statement that he believed Jong Un did not know the specifics on what happened to Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died after being jailed in North Korea.
“It’s strange, and I don’t know, something is wrong that Kim Jong Un, a proven thug, that the president chooses to believe,” Pelosi said.
Still, Pelosi expressed relief that Trump had not cut a deal with Jong Un that gave away American leverage.
“It’s really good the president didn’t give him anything for the little he was proposing,” Pelosi said.
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