North Korea Contradicts Trump: Kim Asked For “Partial” Sanctions Relief In Exchange For Shuttering Facilities

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Thu, 02/28/2019

Update 3: In what might be the first hint about how the Hanoi summit’s failure could impact trade talks, the editor of an English-language Communist Party mouthpiece insinuated in a tweet that Beijing is unhappy with the US’s negotiating tactics, and that Trump should have “serious talks” about lifting sanctions in exchange for partial denuclearization.

North Korea asks for partial, not entire removal of the sanctions. I think this is a reasonable demand. The US should have serious talks with North Korea on conditions for partial removal of sanctions. https://t.co/vOIQeH6XXJ

— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) February 28, 2019

In other words, if Beijing believes the US should meet Pyongyang half way, what are the chances that President Xi will have an abrupt change of heart about the US’s negotiating position in the trade talks?

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