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Trump: North Korea demanded too much in talks

US President Donald Trump said that the US and North Korea were not able to reach any agreement because North Korea demanded a full removal of US-led international sanctions in exchange for the closure of its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

Trump: North Korea demanded too much in talks

US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

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Published : Feb 28, 2019, 3:09 PM IST

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Updated : Feb 28, 2019, 3:18 PM IST

Hanoi: President Donald Trump says his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un fell through after the North demanded a full removal of US-led international sanctions in exchange for the closure of its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters in Vietnam on Thursday that the United States wasn't willing to make a deal without the North committing to giving up its secretive nuclear facilities outside Yongbyon as well as its missile and warheads program.

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Experts have said Washington shouldn't give up too much for a Yongbyon-only deal as the North is believed to be secretly operating other uranium enrichment sites hidden around the country.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he wishes the two sides could have got further.

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He says they asked Kim to do more and "he was unprepared to do that."

Trump says that the summit ended on a good note but that there are no current plans for a third summit.

Hanoi: President Donald Trump says his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un fell through after the North demanded a full removal of US-led international sanctions in exchange for the closure of its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters in Vietnam on Thursday that the United States wasn't willing to make a deal without the North committing to giving up its secretive nuclear facilities outside Yongbyon as well as its missile and warheads program.

Also Read:There is 'reasonably attractive news' in Indo-Pak conflict: Trump

Experts have said Washington shouldn't give up too much for a Yongbyon-only deal as the North is believed to be secretly operating other uranium enrichment sites hidden around the country.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he wishes the two sides could have got further.

Also Read:South Korean president to announce new engagement plans

He says they asked Kim to do more and "he was unprepared to do that."

Trump says that the summit ended on a good note but that there are no current plans for a third summit.

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Hanoi - 28 February 2019
1. Wide of news conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US President Donald Trump on stage
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State:
"I agree. I talked with my counterparts as well. Look we hope we can do more but everyone's very focused on how we continue to build on this. We are certainly closer today than we were 36 hours ago and we were closer then than we were a month or two before that. So real progress was made. I think everyone had hoped we could do just a little bit better. But the departure was with an agreement that we would continue to work on what has been an incredibly difficult problem. Both sides are resolved to achieve it and everyone walked away in that spirit."
3. Wide of news conference
4. Reporter asking question
SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:
"I don't want to do something that is going to violate the trust that we've built up. We have a very strong partnership."
(Reporter, off-camera: "So can you just give us a little more detail. Did you get into the question of actually dismantling the Yongbyon complex.")
Trump: "I did, Yes, absolutely."
(Reporter, off-camera: "And does he seem willing ultimately to take all of that out.")
Trump: "Sure, totally."
(Reporter, off-camera: "He does? He just wants all the sanctions off first?")
"He would do that but he wants the sanctions for that and as you know there's plenty left after that. And I just felt it wasn't good. Mike and I spent a long time negotiating and talking about it to ourselves and just I felt that that particular facility, while very big, it wasn't enough to do what we were doing."
(Reporter, off-camera: "So he was willing to do Yongbyon but you wanted more than that, I assume.")
Trump: "We had to have more than that. Yes we had to have more than that. Because there are other things that you haven't talked about, that you haven't written about, that we found and that was done a long time ago but the people didn't know about."
(Reporter-off-camera: "Including the second uranium enrichment plan?"
Trump: "Exactly. And we brought many points up that I think they were surprised that we knew, but we had to do more than just the one level because if we did the one level and we gave up all of that leverage that has taken a long time to build. I want to take off the sanctions so badly because I want that country to grow. That country has got such potential but they have to give up or we could have done that deal. Mike you want to speak to that?"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State:
"There are also timing sequencing issues that were associated with that as well which we didn't quite get across the finish line as well. But remember even the Yongbyon facility and all of its scope which is important for sure still leaves missiles, still leaves warheads and weapons systems. So there's a lot of other element that we just couldn't get to.... and a declaration. All of those things, we couldn't quite get there today."
6. End of news conference, Trump and Pompeo leaving
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump says his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fell through after the North demanded a full removal of U.S.-led international sanctions in exchange for the closure of its Yongbyon nuclear facility.
Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters in Vietnam on Thursday that the United States wasn't willing to make a deal without the North committing to giving up its secretive nuclear facilities outside Yongbyon as well as its missile and warheads program.
Experts have said Washington shouldn't give up too much for a Yongbyon-only deal as the North is believed to be secretly operating other uranium enrichment sites hidden around the country.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he wishes the two sides could have got further.
He says they asked Kim to do more and "he was unprepared to do that."
Trump says that the summit ended on a good note but that there are no current plans for a third summit.
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