{"id":70493,"date":"2018-04-19T02:19:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T02:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/04\/19\/trump-says-he-may-leave-summit-with-north-korea-leader-if-meeting-not-fruitful\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:35:07","slug":"trump-says-he-may-leave-summit-with-north-korea-leader-if-meeting-not-fruitful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/19\/trump-says-he-may-leave-summit-with-north-korea-leader-if-meeting-not-fruitful\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump leaves open possibility of bailing on meeting with North Korea leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump said that although he\u2019s looking ahead optimistically to a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/17\/trump-says-us-and-north-korea-talking-at-extremely-high-levels\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\"> historic summit<\/a> meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he feels it\u2019s \u201cnot going to be fruitful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/18\/us-officials-say-pompeo-has-met-with-north-koreas-kim\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Kim<\/a> \u201cgot along really well\u201d in their recent secret meeting, and he declared, \u201cWe\u2019ve never been in a position like this\u201d to address worldwide concerns over North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/18\/us-forces-in-korea-arent-packing-up-just-yet-heres-why\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-927755548.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US forces in Korea aren\u2019t packing up just yet. Here\u2019s why.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Any peace deal with North Korea is unlikely to have an immediate impact on the 23,000 U.S. troops deployed on the peninsula.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But speaking alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday, after the allies met at Trump\u2019s Florida resort, he made clear that he\u2019d still be ready to pull the plug on what is being billed as an extraordinary meeting between the leaders of longtime adversaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf I think that if it\u2019s a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we\u2019re not going to go. If the meeting when I\u2019m there is not fruitful I will respectfully leave the meeting,\u201d Trump told a news conference. He also said that a U.S.-led \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign of tough economic sanctions on North Korea would continue until the isolated nation \u201cdenuclearizes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abe echoed the sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJust because North Korea is responding to dialogue, there should be no reward. Maximum pressure should be maintained,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2017\/05\/21\/war-with-north-korea-an-inside-look-at-how-us-troops-would-respond-worldwide\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/air-korea-1.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">War with North Korea: An inside look at how US troops would respond worldwide<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Missiles and artillery rounds arc across the 38th Parallel from North Korea into South Korea and in an instant, 64 years of a tense ceasefire ends and war erupts.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has said his summit with Kim, with whom he traded bitter insults and threats last year as North Korea conducted nuclear and missile tests, could take place by early June, although the venue has yet to be decided. It would be the first such leadership summit between the two nations after six decades of hostility following the Korean War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who meets with the North Korean leader next week, said Thursday that Kim isn\u2019t asking for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula as a precondition for abandoning his nuclear weapons. If true, this would seem to remove a major sticking point to a potential nuclear disarmament deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moon said the North still wants the United States to end its \u201chostile\u201d policy and offer security guarantees. When North Korea has previously talked about \u201chostility\u201d it has been linked to the U.S. troops in South Korea, so Kim\u2019s intentions remain unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other than the threat posed to by North Korea\u2019s weapons of mass destruction, another issue overhanging the summit plans is the fate of three Americans detained there. Trump said that was under negotiation and there was a \u201cgood chance\u201d of winning their release, but he wouldn\u2019t say whether that was a precondition for sitting down with Kim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pompeo raised the question of the three Americans in his meeting with Kim, a U.S. official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also said he had promised Abe he would work hard for the return of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea. Tokyo says at least a dozen Japanese said to have been taken in the 1970s and 1980s remain unaccounted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18108082583824.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18108082583824.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18108082583824.jpg.jpg?resize=300,174 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18108082583824.jpg.jpg?resize=768,446 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CIA Director Mike Pompeo, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently traveled to North Korea to meet with leader Kim Jong Un, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, April 17, 2018. (Jacquelyn Martin\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">News of Pompeo\u2019s trip to North Korea, which took place more than two weeks ago, emerged on Tuesday, as lawmakers weighed whether he should be confirmed to become secretary of state. Trump and Republican senators held up his highly unusual, secret mission as sign of Pompeo\u2019s diplomatic ability. But the prospect of his confirmation hung in the balance as Democrats lined up against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Robert Menendez, top-ranking Democrat on the committee that will have the first vote on confirmation, expressed frustration that the CIA chief had not briefed him on the visit that took place more than a week before Pompeo\u2019s public hearing last Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is the most senior U.S. official to meet with a North Korean leader since Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met with Kim\u2019s father in Pyongyang in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow I don\u2019t expect diplomacy to be negotiated out in the open, but I do expect for someone who is the nominee to be secretary of state, when he speaks with committee leadership and is asked specific questions about North Korea, to share some insights about such a visit,\u201d Menendez said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to vote on the nomination next week. Pompeo, whose hawkish foreign policy views and comments about minorities have raised Democratic hackles, would replace Rex Tillerson, who was pushed out by Trump last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the U.S. Senate, Republicans have a single-vote advantage on the 21-member panel that will have the first say on Pompeo\u2019s nomination. With nine of the 10 Democrats already declaring they will oppose Pompeo, and at least one Republican, Rand Paul of Kentucky, also opposed, the panel could be forced to take the unusual step of sending the nomination to the full Senate without a favorable recommendation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said Wednesday he expects Paul to come through on Pompeo. The president called Paul and the senator agreed to meet with Pompeo, but Paul\u2019s spokesman said, \u201cNothing else has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for opposition by Democrats, Republican Cory Gardner, who chairs an Asia subcommittee, said in an interview that they \u201cwant to play partisan politics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite meeting Pompeo on Tuesday, Gardner said he hadn\u2019t been briefed on the trip and was awaiting more information about it. Still, he said the fact that the meeting happened gave weight to Pompeo\u2019s testimony last week that the administration was committed to the \u201ccomplete and verifiable denuclearization\u201d of North Korea and sustaining sanctions pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not unprecedented for U.S. intelligence officials to serve as conduits for communication with Pyongyang. In 2014, the then-director of U.S. national intelligence, James Clapper, secretly visited North Korea to bring back two American detainees. Clapper did not, however, meet with Kim, who has only in recent weeks emerged from international seclusion after taking power six years ago and super-charging North Korea\u2019s push to become a nuclear power. Kim met last month with China\u2019s president and is to meet South Korea\u2019s leader April 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writers Zeke Miller in Palm Beach, Florida, Lisa Mascaro, Deb Riechmann and Matthew Lee in Washington, Gillian Wong in Beijing and Foster Klug in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said that although he\u2019s looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he feels it\u2019s \u201cnot going to be 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