Second Trump-Kim summit ‘most likely’, US president says as he defends North Korea diplomacy
Trump complains China is not doing its part to help because of trade war but insists ‘a lot of good things are happening’ with Pyongyang
While insisting that “a lot of good things are happening” with North Korea, Trump complained that China was not helping as much as it had in the past because of its trade dispute with the United States.
Trump, who faced the North Korean challenge as soon as he took office in January 2017, said he had only been working on the North Korean issue for three months whereas his predecessors had been working on it for 30 years.
“I stopped (North Korea’s) nuclear testing. I stopped (North Korea’s) missile testing. Japan is thrilled. What’s going to happen? Who knows? We’re going to see,” he said on Monday.
At their summit in Singapore, Kim agreed in broad terms to work toward denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula but North Korea has given no indication it is willing to give up its weapons unilaterally as the Trump administration has demanded.