Trump's meeting with North Korea was 'failed summit' that was 'all about show': Leon Panetta

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

Trump's meeting with North Korea was 'failed summit' that was 'all about show': Leon Panetta

By QUINN SCANLAN Sep 2, 2018, 9:29 AM ET

A former defense secretary and CIA director under President Obama said he is "very worried" about the situation with North Korea following President Trump and Kim Jong Un's "failed summit" that was "doomed to failure.”

Leon Panetta told “This Week” Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz in an exclusive interview aired Sunday that the June summit between Trump and the North Korean leader was "all about 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,” Panetta said on "This Week."

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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-meeting-north-korea-failed-summit-show-leon/story?id=57551447

[dameatball]

1. Well, Kim did get a free trip to Singapore.

This is how Trump thinks diplomacy is done. Who needs research or preparation?

[underpants]

2. That was only in June? Jesus, it seems like a year ago

The show included nothing t just the handshake but the US flag right beside the flag of North Korea.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. But Spanky and the GOPers were convinced the Nobel Peace Prize was in the bag,

and a few of the especially stupid ones even sent in a nomination. https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/02/politics/nobel-peace-prize-republicans/index.html

[NCjack]

5. FAKE president* Trump (self-described "best negotiator in the world") warned

us that if this deal fails, he will place the blame on someone else. Getting very close to the time for him to tell us who is responsible for this failure.

[soryang]

6. This is the actual problem

Exclusive: Trump promised Kim Jong Un he’d sign an agreement to end the Korean War
He hasn’t followed through yet — and North Korea talks may have stalled because of it.
By Alex Ward

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/29/17795452/trump-north-korea-war-summit-singapore-promise

President Donald Trump told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their Singapore summit in June that he’d sign a declaration to end the Korean War soon after their meeting, according to multiple sources familiar with the negotiations.

But since then, the Trump administration has repeatedly asked Pyongyang to dismantle most of its nuclear arsenal first, before signing such a document.

That decision is likely what has led to the current stalemate in negotiations between the two countries — and the increasingly hostile rhetoric from North Korea.

“It makes sense why the North Koreans are angry,” one source told me. “Having Trump promise a peace declaration and then moving the goalposts and making it conditional would be seen as the US reneging on its commitments.”