Trump says Kim summit might be delayed or not happen AT ALL as he meets South Korea's president in wake of North's threat to cancel talks

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  • Trump said Tuesday in the Oval, 'We’ll see what happens. There are certain conditions we want to happen. I think we'll get those conditions' 
  • Also said as he met with South Korea's Moon Jae-in: 'There's a very substantial chance that it won't work out, and that's OK' 
  • Kim Jong-un is demanding concessions and threatening not to go to Singapore on June 12 for planned talks    
  • Trump is now said to be considering backing out of the summit over the increasing likelihood that scheduled talks will turn into an embarrassment
  • The president has said that he will not budge on denuclearization of the peninsula, a facet of the meeting that Kim is now refusing to agree to.

    • hedged his bets Tuesday on the likelihood that his Kim summit would move forward telling reporters as he greeted the South Korean president, 'We'll soon know.'
    Trump in the Oval Office told journalists asking about the June 12 summit minutes later, 'We’re moving along. We’ll see what happens. There are certain conditions we want to happen. I think we'll get those conditions. 
    He added, 'And if we don't, we won't have the meeting.'
    'If it doesn’t happen, maybe it will happen later,' Trump said. 'Maybe it will happen at a different time.' 
    The U.S. president also said, 'There's a very substantial chance that it won't work out, and that's OK.'
    South Korea's Moon Jae-in and Trump are meeting today at the White House for a round of talks that will almost certainly define the position of the U.S. president on the future of the sit-down he planned to have with Kim in Singapore next month.
    The New York Times reported Sunday that Trump was considering backing out of the face-to-face talks that could turn into an embarrassment for him.
    Trump is said to have surveyed aides the optics of Kim's own threats to cancel the June 12 meeting with Moon in a weekend phone call.





    Chung Eui-yong, national security adviser to Moon, told reporters en route to Washington that he was not only on the call 'no such thing happened' and he is '99.9 percent' sure the meeting in Singapore will move forward.
    'We have perceived none of that,' Chung said of reported nervousness on the part of the U.S.
    Trump said Tuesday for the first time that the summit could happen, just at a later date. 'It may not work out for June 12,' he said. 
    He said that he doesn't 'want to waste a lot of time' on talks and suspects that Kim doesn't either





    Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin also 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.
    Chung meanwhile told South Korean press, 'I listened in on the telephone conversation between the two heads of state, and no such thing happened.'
    In an interview on Monday that aired in full during Fox New's 'The Story with Martha McCallum,' Vice President Mike Pence said, 'The president remains open to a summit taking place, and we’ll continue to pursue that path even while we stand strong on the objective of denuclearization and extreme pressure campaign that’s underway today.'
    'We offered concessions to the North Korean regime in exchange for promises to end their nuclear weapons program, only to see them break those promises and abandon them,' Pence asserted. 'It would be a great mistake for Kim Jong-un to think he could play Donald Trump


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