North Korea Says Trump Wasn't 'Confident' Enough to Meet Kim Jong Un
We're talking to them now. It was a very nice statement they put out.
Tania Lindsay-Jean, an American resident in Singapore, said: "I'm actually quite relieved it's not going to happen". "It could even be the 12th". "They very much want to do it, we'd like to do it", he told reporters. We'd like to do it.
Defense Secretary James Mattis also sounded an optimistic note, telling reporters at the Pentagon there is "possibly some good news" about the summit, saying that "if our diplomats can pull it off" it may be back on. They announced they would be holding a candlelit vigil Friday evening in response to Trump canceling the summit.
Despite hints in recent statements of the old fiery rhetoric from both the U.S. president and Pyongyang, both sides have left the door open for talks.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Kim was the "big winner" out of the situation since it gave the North Korean dictator 'global recognition and regard'. Mr. Trump said from the White House that a "maximum pressure campaign" of economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation would continue against North Korea - with which the U.S.is technically still at war - but he added that it was possible the summit could still take place at some point.
Moon met Trump in Washington on Tuesday, but appeared caught unaware by the president's decision Thursday.
A top North Korean official had issued a statement Thursday evening expressing the regime's "willingness" to sit down for a summit with the U.S.
"There have been no changes in the stance of related parties in that the problem should be solved through dialogue", said Baek Tae-hyun, the spokesman of Seoul's Unification Ministry.
"It may be hard to resolve the sensitive and hard diplomatic issues through such methods of communication now being employed", he was quoted as saying by the Yonhap news agency.
The statement from Pyongyang appeared created to get the summit with Kim back on track after Trump canceled their planned Singapore meeting, citing "tremendous anger and open hostility" in recent statements from North Korea.
Perhaps after insulting Vice President Mike Pence and national security adviser John Bolton over the last few weeks, Kim didn't feel the need to repeat his insult of long ago, when he called Trump a "dotard".
Park tells TIME that although the young generation of South Koreans tended to be skeptical of improvements in inter-Korean relations, Moon and Kim's April 27 meeting had "inspired the young generation to see North Korea differently".
It is Mr Trump's comment on May 24th that America's armed forces were "ready if necessary" to deal with trouble on the peninsula that will most have alarmed southerners.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a hawkish Republican from SC, said he had spoken with Trump directly and insisted the president was still committed to the negotiations.
Trump later said the USA military is "ready if necessary" to respond to a "foolish or reckless act" by North Korea.
Kim Kye-gwan said Pyongyang was ready to meet the USA side "at any time and in any format".
Choe Son-hui had said the suggestions from US Vice-President Mike Pence that North Korea "may end like Libya" was "stupid".
He also said the USA side's unilateral decision was making the North reconsider whether they were right to gone to all the efforts it had made so far and to opt for a new path. The U.S. should build a coalition of like-minded countries that commit to prohibiting North Korean overseas laborers.
Meanwhile in St Petersburg, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday North Korea should meet certain conditions before it can discuss long-term partnership with other countries, such as denuclearisation, the return of abducted people and fullfilling United Nations resolutions. For added impact, he said Libya, whose leader agreed to give up his nuclear program only to be deposed and killed, would be a good model.
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