U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton
says,... Washington gave a "big deal" document
to North Korea.
As we never got to see what it includes,...
our Lee Ji-won turned to some experts for
their take on what could've been part of this
deal.
With the 2nd North Korea-U.S. summit coming
to an end with no agreement reached,... the
"big deal" mentioned by National Security
Advisor John Bolton in numerous interviews
never got to see light.
But numerous U.S. officials have been emphasizing
that Washington was prepared for a big deal,
that included pretty much everything from
the weapons of mass destruction, to a declaration
of the North's nuclear and missile programs.
"There are also timing and sequencing issues
associated with that as well that we didn't
quite get across that finish line as well.
Even that facility in all of its scope which
is important for sure, still leaves missiles
and warheads and weapons systems.
So there's a lot of other elements we couldn't
get to.//And the declaration, so all of those
things we couldn't get to today."
A senior State Department official told reporters
after the summit, that President Trump had
encouraged North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
to go "all in",... and the U.S. too is expected
to have presented the North with something
more than the alleviation of sanctions -- possibly
a peace statement as well.
"No one knows for sure if they had the declaration
of the end of the Korean War in there as well,
or simply a clause on further discussions
on that.
But something on ending the state of war would've
been included as well, as they called it a
"grand bargain"."
But despite these efforts, no deal was reached.
"Their gap in the scale, range and subject
of denuclearization seem to have been different.
North Korea obviously wasn't going to give
anything more than the Yeongbyeon nuclear
facility.
They simply continued asking the U.S. to lift
practically all the sanctions.
And when the U.S. mentioned dismantling the
uranium facility, the North is likely to have
avoided that discussion."
The expert adds that with the phased approach
not seeming to be working, there is a possibility
that the U.S. will go back to square one and
ask for a roadmap of the whole process.
Lee Ji-won Arirang News.
