President Donald Trump answers a final question while departing a press conference following his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12, 2018 in Singapore. Trump is meeting again with Kim in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 27 and 28. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that there was “no rush” to denuclearize North Korea, whose leader, Kim Jong Un, he’s meeting with next week.
“I have no pressing time schedule,” Trump said of full denuclearization by the North, adding that he would “like to see, ultimately denuclearization, of North Korea” and that he thought “we will see that, ultimately.”
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The president is meeting with Kim in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 27 and 28. The two leaders, who had their first historic meeting in Singapore last June, agreed to a framework to denuclearize the region.
Analysts and former U.S. officials, however, have cast doubt on Trump’s assessment of North Korea’s commitment to that pledge.
Trump told reporters while speaking in the Oval office that he believed “that North Korea and Chairman Kim have some very positive things in mind” about getting rid of nuclear weapons and “we’ll soon find out” what it is.
“I’m in no rush,” Trump said of denuclearization. “As long as there’s no testing, I’m in no rush. If there’s testing, that’s another deal. But there has been no testing.”
Top intelligence officials earlier this month told Congress that North Korea was unlikely to fully give up its nuclear weapons, despite Trump’s claim that it eventually will.
Earlier this month, Army Gen. Robert Abrams, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, said that although there was a “significant reduction in tension” over missile and nuclear tests by North Korea, he warned that the country’s annual military exercises hadn’t changed in size, scope or timing.
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