Top former intel official says Singapore summit was "serious misstep"
Source: CBS News
The Trump administration committed a "serious misstep" in arranging the Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, according to top former Treasury official and former CIA deputy director David Cohen.
Kim's face-to-face meeting with President Trump – and the president's subsequent declarations about North Korea's nuclear threat – may have diminished the world's resolve to enforce sanctions against Kim's regime, Cohen said.
"We had President Trump, I think quite prematurely, jump into this summit with Kim Jong-un," Cohen explained, "and then on the way out of Singapore, declare that the problem has been solved."
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The leaders' meeting resulted in a joint statement on disarmament but did not include a timetable or specifics on what steps North Korea was expected to take. To date, North Korea has voluntarily ended its missile tests, shut down an underground nuclear test site and returned the remains of some American soldiers killed in the Korean War – but it has made little perceptible progress on denuclearization, a core tenet of U.S. policy toward the North.
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