MEDIA/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As negotiations over a summit meeting with the ruler of North Korea accelerate, President Trump on Sunday [4-22-18] disputed any suggestion that he had made too many concessions at the outset of an unpredictable and potentially volatile diplomatic exercise. From his Florida estate, Mr. Trump took to Twitter to criticize Chuck Todd, the host of ‘Meet the Press,’ who questioned on that program and an earlier broadcast whether the president had gotten anything in return for the ‘huge gift’ he had given the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, by agreeing to meet with him. On ‘Meet the Press,’ Marc Short, the White House legislative affairs director, had an answer teed up — that the North Koreans had given the United States ‘an agreement to stop testing’ nuclear weapons…North Korea has not in fact agreed to denuclearization. It has told the South Koreans that it is willing to discuss the issue, but Mr. Kim has made no such statement to his own people, as he did with his declaration that his country did not need to conduct further nuclear testing.”
-Katie Rogers, Trump Rejects Notion He Has Made Too Many Concessions to North Korea,” The New York Times online, April 22, 2018