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Sarah Sanders on China contradicting Trump on denuclearizing North Korea: Agree to disagree

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‘Yeah, both sides made their position clear,’ Sanders said. ‘They’re different, but we agree that they’re going to be different positions an…
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders acknowledged on Thursday that the U. S. and China are at odds when it comes to whether the U. S. should give up conducting military exercises near the Korean Peninsula in exchange for North Korea halting its nuclear weapons program.
President Trump on Wednesday said he and President Xi Jinping agree that the U. S. should not offer to give up its military exercises, a proposal known as “freeze-for-freeze” or “dual suspension.”
“President Xi recognizes that a nuclear North Korea is a grave threat to China, and we agreed that we would not accept a so-called ‘freeze-for-freeze’ agreement like those that have consistently failed in the past,” Trump said in a wrap-up of his 12-day trip to five Asian countries.
But hours later, China’s Foreign Ministry contradicted Trump by saying that option is still on the table.
“We believe that the ‘dual suspension’ proposal is the most feasible, fair and sensible plan in the present situation,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a daily briefing in Beijing, according to Reuters .

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