U.S. team lowers expectations for second summit with North Korea's Kim
sauce: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-summit-preview-analysi/u-s-team-lowers-expectations-for-second-summit-with-north-koreas-kim-idUSKCN1QD0Z5
"But it soon became clear that the two sides had different idea of what they meant by denuclearization. Follow-up talks quickly ran into trouble over U.S. demands for North Korea’s complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization, which Pyongyang denounced as unilateral and “gangster like.”
Trump, keen to present his unprecedented engagement with North Korea as a success, now says complete denuclearization remains the “ultimate” goal, but there is no hurry for this, provided a freeze in weapons testing that has lasted since 2017 remains in place.
Trump has also held out the prospect of easing punishing sanctions on the country, a pressing North Korean demand, if it does “something that’s meaningful” on denuclearization. "