North Korea Contradicts Trump on Why Summit Collapsed; Says ‘Our Proposal Will Never be Changed’

patrick.goodenough | February 28, 2019
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North Korea is partly disputing President Trump’s version of the cause of Thursday’s collapse of the summit in Hanoi, saying Kim Jong Un had asked for a “partial” easing of sanctions – not a complete lifting, as Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo maintain. And, Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters in the Vietnamese capital, the North Korean proposal as put to the Americans “will never be changed.”

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