As he left a G-7 summit roiled by his trade demands, President Donald Trump turned to nuclear talks and said North Korea has ‘one shot’ to show seriousness.
QUEBEC CITY — President Donald Trump said Saturday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a “one-time shot” to show he’s serious about a nuclear disarmament deal.
“I feel that Kim Jong Un wants to do something great for his people and he has that opportunity,” Trump said at a press conference just before he departed a G-7 summit in Charlevoix, Canada, for his historic Tuesday rendezvous with Kim in Singapore. “He won’t have that opportunity again.”
Trump’s carrot-and-stick rhetoric on North Korea matched his message for the G-7 on trade. After a week in which he exchanged pointed barbs with some leaders of other G-7 nations — Canada, the U. K., France, Italy, Japan and Germany — Trump said Saturday that he is confident he can get them to rectify trade imbalances he believes are harmful to American workers.
“We’re going to fix that situation,” he said. “And if it’s not fixed, we’re not going to deal with these countries.”
In particular, Trump said he expects that he will either be able to convince Canada and Mexico to significantly reshape the North American Free Trade Agreement or that he will create new trade deals with each country separately.
