Trump pullout from summit with North Korea's Kim: Behind the scenes in the White House

WASHINGTON (AP) - A historic nuclear disarmament meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korea's arbitrary Kim Jong Un - based on Trump might give him the Nobel Peace Prize - ruined almost so quickly, abruptly and surprise decision on Thursday morning (24 May) by the President of America.

In the White House's residence, the first alarm was heard around 10 pm on Wednesday when National Security Advisor John Bolton told Trump about a North Korean statement threatening a nuclear-to-nuclear battle and mocking Vice President Mike Pence as  "political doll ".

Mr Trump is disappointed by Pyongyang's rhetorical rhetoric, similar to the drama that Trump often faces to his opponents.
Mr Bolton advised that threatening language was a very bad clue, and the President told the counselor he was concerned that Kim maneuvered to retreat from the summit and make America look like a dream-breaker, based on people familiar with the conversation.

So Mr. Trump canceled it first.

The result is a devastating disappointment for a President who wishes to pursue a peace deal with North Korea that has not been successfully achieved by his predecessors.


In a quick decision at the beginning of March, Mr. Trump agreed to work on face-to-face discussions with Kim, and in the weeks ahead, he was optimistic - even about what would happen when the two men met June 12 in Singapore.

"Rather it is a legal disappointment for him, whereas he has been half-warned that it will not happen," said Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal advocate, who visited the President on Wednesday in New York.

Mr Trump disputed the location of the summit and seriously considered meeting Mr Kim throughout the demilitarized area between North and South Korea.

She imagined the alcoholic beverage. The White House Communications Board produced a small series of red, white and blue challenge coins that appeared with Mr. Silver's face. Trump faced with Mr. Kim.

He also made efforts to win the Nobel Prize of Penentraman. This is the final Trump production.

But the President's fantasies collided with the reality of negotiations with the ignorant and unreliable regime.

Though Mr. Trump is hardly the first President to have a sensitive diplomatic appeal, he plays in full public view, much like the soap opera mentioned every day from the Oval Office.

Mr. Tony Schwartz, who co-authored The Art of the Deal with Mr. Trump, said the President scotched the summit to save his ego.

"Trump has an unnatural fear of being humiliated and humiliated," Schwartz said. "This shows who is the biggest and strongest, so he is very sensitive to the possibility that he will end up with a weak and small look.Nothing is more unacceptable to Trump than that. "

At dawn on Thursday, senior US officials gathered in the West Wing, and at 7 am, they discussed a telephone alternative with Mr. Trump, who was still in his private room. The president arrived at a rapid decision to cancel the summit.

An advisory cadre - including Mr. Bolton, Chief of Staff John Kelly, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Deputy Chief of Staff President Nick Ayers, Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin and deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel - hurried between Mr. Ayers, General Office Kelly and Mr. Bolton, completing their agenda for breaking Trump's news.

Mr. Trump dictated a blurred personal letter but sadly for Mr. Kim to blame him for  "outrageous public outbreak and open hostility is displayed in your recent statement ".

The record contains Trump's advantages, including flattering the recipient (he is discussing an arbitrary person who has kidnapped an American and killed his own citizen as "His Majesty") and boasts about the size of his armament.

"You are discussing about your nuclear prowess, but our skills are such a big and strong that I pray to them that they will never be applied," wrote Trump.

The behind-the-scenes account of Mr. Trump's decision to cancel the Singapore Summit is based on interviews with seven government officials, many of whom discussed the situation of anonymity to explicitly address sensitive issues.

Mr Trump's move captures South Korea and other allies off guard - some by design, said the assistant.

The president was worried that the news would leak if foreign counterparts were put on alert, while some in the White House were concerned about insulting allies.

Foreign diplomats got the issue that the summit was at the same time as the common people, shortly before 10 am, when the White House sent a copy of Trump's letter to journalists.

In the Blue House of South Korean President, officials appear blind.

President Moon Jae In has just returned from Washington, where he met Mr. Trump on Tuesday, and Moon's national security advisor recently put the chances of the Summit going to 99.9 percent.

Taken shortly after Trump's letter was released, Blue House spokeswoman Kim Eui Kyeom said, "We are trying to understand what, exactly, President Trump's intention is."

Mr Trump made the announcement while some American journalists were in North Korea at the invitation of Kim's government to witness the light ruin of the nuclear test web.

In 2009, North Korean troops contained two American journalists, Ms Euna Lee and Ms. Laura Ling, who were accused of illegal entry and dammed for five months.

CNN Correspondent Will Ripley, who reports from the experimental area this week, remembers being the man who reads Trump's letter to North Korean officials.

"There's just a sense of grave, concrete stress," Mr Ripley reported on Thursday. "Then they got up and left and are now on the phone to bring the news up."

At that time, Mr Ripley added, it was "very awkward and uncomfortable".

Mr Trump's final decision was abrupt, but doubts have evolved over the course of most days, with indications throughout the week that North Korea operates in bad faith.

President's tone is a bit skeptical.

"We will see what happens," he told reporters on Wednesday.  "But it can happen.

Kim and his deputy condemned Bolton for comments he made on April 29 at CBS News where he said the government would try to emulate the "Libyan example" of 2003 and 2004, in which Muammar Gaddafi abandoned his regime's nuclear weapons program.

North Koreans believe that the treaty led to Gaddafi's fall and death in 2011, and an important assistant Kim detonated Mr. Bolton, whom they have traditionally regarded as an antagonist for many years as foreign policy.

Mr Trump last week sought to convince Kim that he would consistently rule under a nuclear deal with the United States, contrary to Bolton by saying, "Rather Libya is not an example we have. "

But on Monday Mr Pence said in an interview with Fox News that "Libyan exemplary" would apply to North Korea if Mr. Kim disagrees to denuclearize.

Aides said Pence's comments were not an attempt to sabotage the deal, saying that he and Mr Trump had discussions before Fox's interview and that the Vice President reaffirmed the score already generated by Trump earlier.

When, the Pence analogy in Libya makes nerves in Pyongyang.

As the North Korean government releases a torrent attack on Wednesday to the Trump Administration, a close assistant to Mr Kim calls Pence the "political doll" that makes "stupid and stupid statements ".

Meanwhile, US officials are increasingly concerned that Kim's deputy has been silent in preparation for the summit.

Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo - who travels twice to North Korea and is considered inside the Trump government as a good policeman for Bolton enforcement - blames Pyongyang for the disruption of communications in recent days.

The United States "did not get a reaction to our questions from them", Pompeo said of the Senate panel on Thursday.  "We get a lot of ringing tones. "

US officials were increasingly frustrated last week when a senior North Korean delegation failed to arise for a planning meeting in Singapore, leaving a team led by Mr Hagin in the island nation with little to do.

"They're waiting, and they're waiting," a senior White House official said. "North Koreans never arise, North Koreans do not tell us anything, they just support us. "

Mr Trump thought that Chinese President Xi Jinping might have something to do with Mr. Kim's turn, reflecting this week around their meeting this month.

"When Kim Jong Un held a meeting with President Xi, in China, the second meeting ... I think there is a slight change of attitude from Kim Jong Un," Trump said on Tuesday, with Mr. Moon at his side.

"I do not like it, I do not like it from a Chinese point of view, I hope it is not true because I have a good relationship with President Xi He is my friend He likes me.

Evelyn Farkas, a former national security official of the Obama administration who has dealt with the North Korean issue, says Trump is naive.

"He failed to understand that while he may have good relations with a head of state, the head of state will behave in his national interest and disobey his personal feelings," Farkas said.

Assistant Trump administration officials are worried about "losing the upper hand" if Mr. Kim ties Trump together and then redeems at the meeting, according to a second senior White House official.

Tempting began telling Mr. Trump last week that he should be ready for the summit not to happen and that it may take some tries before he actually meets Mr. Kim face-to-face.

Despite some President's enthusiasm supported by Mr. Bolton, as well as by some congressional allies.

"This is what I say to the President: North Koreans will try to wait for you," Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said.

"They will swoop down and trick you, they will delay, they will obscure.They will make promises and draw them back. "

Despite warning signs, Trump is consistent in his wish that the summit will go ahead as he imagines.

Above Air Force One on Wednesday, Mr Trump told passengers that he believed Mr Kim was ready to make a deal and that enough "screw " had put him to take him to the diplomacy table in Singapore, based on the Peter Representative King, a New York Republican, who flies with Mr. Trump.

"He's supposed to be betting now, he has no intention of canceling it," said Mr. King. "He discarded a new outlook-a new, different view-nothing dramatic, but a bright thought of what they would do over the next few days to get ready and make an agenda for the summit."

For Mr. Trump, the cancellation carries a silver line - at least in the eyes of his lawyer.

Mr Giuliani said the President would now be free to concentrate on whether to sit for an interview with Special Advisory team Robert Mueller in Russian search.

When, Mr. Giuliani adds, he believes Mr. Trump is more likely to result in sitting across from Mr. Kim from Mr. Mueller.

"I think it's more inevitable than Mueller's interview," Giuliani said. "At least they will not try to trap him into a fake Korean oath. "

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