Trump is asking advisers and foreign allies if he should call off his summit with North Korea after Kim's dramatic change of tone

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  • Trump is considering backing out  the summit over the increasing likelihood that scheduled talks will turn into an embarrassment for him
  • Kim Jong-un is demanding concessions and threatening not to go to Singapore on June 12 for planned talks 
  • Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin told DailyMail.com on Monday morning that for now the summit is still on
  • 'I don't think the president gets cold feet about anything,' Mnuchin said 
    • is considering backing out of a summit with North Korea over the increasing likelihood that scheduled talks will turn into an embarrassment for him.
    Trump is said to have been weighing the way forward privately, surveying aides and discussing the optics of Kim Jong-un's own threats to cancel the June 12 meeting with South Korea's Moon Jae-in, according to the New York Times. 
    Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told DailyMail.com on Monday morning that for now the summit is still on.
    'I don't think the president gets cold feet about anything, so I think as the president has said, right now it's still on, if that changes, you'll find out about it,' he said in response to reports that Trump is the one who could back down

    Kim has been taunting the U.S. since last week over annual military exercises on the Korean Peninsula that are conducted in conjunction with South Korea. The joint exercises were a condition of talks, however the North is now using them as a cudgel.

    The isolated regime also took issue with past statements that Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton, about denuclearization, leading the U.S. president to provide assurances last week that Kim would not be ousted if he abandons his nuclear weapons program. 
    Trump told reporters on Wednesday as the news made its way to the White House that North Korea had not notified the United States of an intent to call off the summit nor had it iterated the demands that appeared in state-run media directly to the administration.
    Asked if the summit would move forward, he said, 'We'll have to see.'
    The president said then that he would not budge on denuclearization of the peninsula.
    'If the meeting happens, it happens and if it doesn't we go onto the next step,' he said Thursday. 'Our people are literally dealing with them right now in terms of making arrangements.'







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