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Second summit between US-N.Korea leaders remained inconclusive
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- Second summit between US-N.Korea leaders remained inconclusive because of North Korea’s insistence on lifting US imposed sanctions on it without the committing to eliminate its nuclear arsenal.
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- U.S. policy: Longstanding U.S. policy has insisted that U.S. sanctions on North Korea would not be lifted until that country committed to, if not concluded, complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.
- North Korea willing to close his country’s main nuclear facility, the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, if the sanctions were lifted.
- But it would leave it with missiles, warheads and weapon systems to which US objected.
- There are also suspected hidden nuclear fuel production sites around the country.
Source
The Hindu