Trump said the North Koreans made concessions on denuclearization, testing, research, and on closing some nuclear sites<\/b>
\nWashington \u2013 President Donald Trump said Thursday that North Korea has made concessions to the U. S. in advance of a potential summit with Kim Jong Un in the coming months, while the U. S. hasn\u2019t given up anything.
Trump cited pledges on denuclearization, testing, research, and on closing some nuclear sites.
\u201cI\u2019m saying to myself wait a minute, all of these things he\u2019s given up and we haven\u2019t even really that much asked them,\u201d Trump told \u201cFox & Friends.\u201d He added: \u201cWe would have asked them, but they gave it up before I even asked.\u201d
North Korea recently announced it will close its nuclear test site and suspend nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests. Kim has indicated he\u2019s also ready to discuss denuclearization but it remains unclear whether he\u2019d really be willing to give up nuclear weapons his nation already has, and what he\u2019d want in return.
Trump has argued that the only concession he has made to North Korea was his surprise decision last month to accept Kim\u2019s invitation for a meeting \u2013 the first ever between the leaders of the United States and North Korea during six decades of hostility. \u201cI never gave up anything,\u201d Trump repeated.
Trump acknowledged the rhetoric that both he and Kim deployed over the last year and the schoolyard taunts of nuclear \u201cbuttons\u201d was \u201cvery, very nasty\u201d and heightened fears of nuclear war. \u201cThis is a much more dangerous ballgame now, but I will tell you it\u2019s going very well.\u201d
He said \u201cthe nuclear war would have happened if you have weak people.\u201d
Trump also revealed more information about CIA Director Mike Pompeo\u2019s secret trip to North Korea this month, saying Pompeo wasn\u2019t supposed to meet with Kim, but that they ended up talking for more than an hour. Pompeo was the most senior U. S. official to meet a North Korean leader since 2000.
\u201cThey had a great meeting,\u201d Trump said.
The president\u2019s remarks came ahead of a summit scheduled for Friday between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a key U. S. ally. That meeting, to be held in the heavily militarized frontier between the rival Koreas, will be the clearest sign yet of whether it\u2019s possible to peacefully negotiate nuclear weapons away from the North.
The U. S.-North Korea summit is expected in May or early June.<\/p>\n

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