An Exasperated White House Official Laments North Korea’s ‘Trail of Broken Promises’
Trump’s team was audibly frustrated in a call with reporters. "We simply couldn’t get them to pick up the phone."
by Uri Friedman
May 24, 2018
2 minutes
A senior White House official said on Thursday that while it “wasn’t helpful” for the North Koreans to call the vice president of the United States a “political dummy” and threaten America with nuclear war, it wasn’t rhetoric alone that doomed Donald Trump’s planned nuclear summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
Instead, speaking to reporters in a background briefing, the
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