Trump Says Ahead of Kim Summit He Doesn't Plan to Lift Sanctions

“I’m not pushing for speed, but we’re not removing the sanctions,” Trump told U.S. governors gathered at the White House on Sunday evening. Kim has made little secret that his key goal for the Feb. 27-28 meeting in Hanoi is to ease sanctions that a choking North Korea’s faltering economy. North Korea faces a complex web of penalties piled on by the United Nations, U.S. and American allies such as Japan, South Korea and the European Union, which now give Trump a sliding scale of possibilities for relaxing pressure.

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