NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will urge North Korea to act quickly to dismantle its nuclear arsenal when he meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and isn’t willing to grant Pyongyang substantial sanctions relief in return for a freeze of its nuclear and missile tests, administration officials said. Those two closely related questions—the pace of Pyongyang’s nuclear dismantlement and the timetable for sanctions relief—stand to be the major issues of the summit…Mr. Kim announced Saturday after a meeting of the central committee of North Korea’s ruling party that his country would close its nuclear test site and suspend long-range missile tests. The statement has been hailed as an important move to establish a good atmosphere for a summit meeting that is expected to be held outside northeast Asia in late May or June.”
-Michael R. Gordon, Jonathan Cheng and Michael C. Bender, “Trump Will Tell Kim Jong Un That Dismantling Nuclear Arsenal Must Precede Economic Benefits,” The Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2018 5:52 pm