South Korea's Moon heads to Washington amid fears for Trump-Kim summit
South Korean President Moon Jae-In heads to Washington on Monday to do what he can to shore up plans for a US-North Korea summit that seem to be on shaky ground.
Moon will meet with Donald Trump Tuesday, ahead of the US President's planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore next month.
That summit has been looking a lot less certain, as Trump appeared to suddenly catch up to widespread skepticism over how willing Kim will be to give up his nuclear arsenal.
The New York Times reported Sunday, citing unnamed administration officials, that Trump had "begun pressing his aides and allies about whether he should take the risk of proceeding" with the Kim summit.
The White House last week was forced to downplay comments by Trump's national security adviser John Bolton that North Korea could follow the "Libya model" in denuclearizing, after they received an angry response from Pyongyang.
Trump said North Korea would never be overthrown by western powers, as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was in 2011, if it agreed to give up its nuclear weapons. But the remarks still rankled in Pyongyang, and spoke to an apparent lack of understanding by Trump and those around him of North Korea's intentions going into the Singapore summit.
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