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Trump’s meeting with North Korea was a ‘failed summit’

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WASHINGTON: Former government officials who had worked under the Obama administration have expressed their worries over American president Donald Trump’s meeting with North Korea’s President Kim Jong Un calling it a ‘Failed Summit’.

Leon Panetta a former defense secretary and CIA director said that the June summit between Trump and the North Korean leader was “all show.”

“The problem is that in many ways it was doomed to failure from the beginning because there was never the preparatory work that has to be done prior to a summit meeting,” Panetta said about the meeting between the two leaders in Singapore. “They shook hands; they exchanged words.”

“When the balloons went away, when the confetti went away, there was nothing there to require the North Koreans to do what was necessary in order to denuclearize,” said Panetta.

Trump recently said that China wasn’t “helping with the process of denuclearization as they once were”.

“I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, at this time, because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” the president had tweeted earlier.”

“Secretary Pompeo looks forward to going to North Korea in the near future, most likely after our Trading relationship with China is resolved,” Trump continued, sending his “warmest regards and respect to Chairman Kim.”

The president’s comments came in contrast to remarks soon after the summit, when he declared that Americans should “sleep well” because there was “no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.”

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