Trump Leaves North Korea Summit Without Agreement on Denuclearization

President Donald “Deals” Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un concluded their second summit on Thursday without coming to an agreement on denuclearization, The Hill reports. The lackluster results of this meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, aren’t all that surprising considering that the 2018 Singapore summit ended with a statement signed by Trump and Kim promising to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula”—but without any actual plans for next steps delineated.

This time around, when asked by a reporter if he was open to denuclearization, Kim replied through an interpreter, “If I’m not willing to do that, I won’t be here right now [sic].” However, the two leaders arrived at an impasse over sanctions.

“It was about the sanctions,” Trump explained at a press conference in Hanoi, according to The Hill. “Basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn’t do that. They were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas we wanted, but we couldn’t give up all of the sanctions for that.”

As per usual, the walking, talking spray-tan discussed the summit as if it was a deal over another one of his gaudy hotels. “Sometimes you have to walk. This was just one of those times,” he said.