Trump downplayed any dissonance between the United States and North Korea after nuclear talks with Kim Jong Un fell apart earlier this week without a deal
Competing versions of each side’s demands emerged after Thursday’s summit in Vietnam between the two leaders.
"What we proposed was not the removal of all sanctions, but a partial removal," North Korea's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ri Yong-ho, said Thursday, according to a translator. In exchange for partial sanctions relief, Ri said North Korea was willing to “permanently and completely” dismantle its Yongbyon nuclear material production facility "in the presence of U.S. experts.
"They were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas that we wanted, but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that," he said.
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