The White House is promoting the president's summit next week with Kim Jong-un as an opportunity for the two leaders to continue the conversation they started last summer.
President Trump said this week that he expects to 'accomplish a lot' in two days of talks with the North Korean dictator, set to take place on Feb. 27 and 28 Vietnam.
His spokeswoman dramatically lowered the bar on Friday, however, as she claimed that 'only' reporters are suggesting that something other than a positive relationship between the two leaders is an ascertainable goal.
'I think that the only one setting high expectations is probably the media,' she said during an interview on Fox News. 'He's had a great success here, in the fact that they're able to even sit down at the table. The fact that he's able to do it again, is itself a big success.'
The administration is also softening its language on sanctions, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claiming that the punishing actions will stay in place until the U.S. is 'confident that we’ve substantially reduced' the risk of a nuclear North Korea.
The White House is promoting the president's summit next week with Kim Jong-un as an opportunity for the two leaders to continue the conversation they started last summer
The administration is also softening its language on sanctions, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claiming that the punishing actions will stay in place until the U.S. is 'confident that we’ve substantially reduced' the risk of a nuclear North Korea
Trump insisted all of last year that crippling sanctions would not be lifted until Pyongyang had submitted to complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization requirements.
Nuclear weapons are banned by the United Nations, and North Korea has been in violation of treaties barring tests for decades.
The U.S. president says that his predecessors are at fault for entering weak agreements, and he has made more progress in two years toward reducing the risk of nuclear annihilation than they ever did.
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