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Dispute over economic sanctions ends Trump-Kim nuclear talks

The leaders had contradictory accounts of why there was no agreement on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam (AN/Joyce N. Boghosian)

UNITED NATIONS (AN) — Despite two summits to negotiate North Korea's denuclearization, talks between Washington and Pyongyang deadlocked. The sticking point? Nine sanctions resolutions approved by the U.N. Security Council in a dozen years.

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cut short a two-day summit at the end of February at Hanoi, Vietnam, their second meeting in less than a year. They went home telling contradictory accounts of why they failed to reach agreement on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons.

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