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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 3637796" data-attributes="member: 4805">Diplomats say the North Koreans have canceled follow-up meetings, demanded more money and failed to maintain basic communications, even as the once-isolated regime’s engagements with China and South Korea flourish.Meanwhile, a missile-engine testing facility that Trump said would be destroyed remains intact, and U.S. intelligence officials say Pyongyang is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-working-to-conceal-key-aspects-of-its-nuclear-program-us-officials-say/2018/06/30/deba64fa-7c82-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.2d4465accdf8" target="_blank">working</a> to conceal key aspects of its nuclear program.The lack of immediate progress, though predicted by many analysts, has frustrated the president, who has fumed at his aides in private even as he publicly hails the success of the negotiations.“Discussions are ongoing and they’re going very well,” Trump told reporters Tuesday.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-private-trump-vents-his-frustration-over-lack-of-progress-on-north-korea/2018/07/21/f6adef88-da7d-403e-9ec8-47d7876fa1de_story.html?utm_term=.9d8638fd4543" target="_blank">In private, Trump vents frustration over lack of progress on North Korea</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jones, post: 3637796, member: 4805"] [I]Diplomats say the North Koreans have canceled follow-up meetings, demanded more money and failed to maintain basic communications, even as the once-isolated regime’s engagements with China and South Korea flourish. Meanwhile, a missile-engine testing facility that Trump said would be destroyed remains intact, and U.S. intelligence officials say Pyongyang is [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-working-to-conceal-key-aspects-of-its-nuclear-program-us-officials-say/2018/06/30/deba64fa-7c82-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.2d4465accdf8']working[/URL] to conceal key aspects of its nuclear program. The lack of immediate progress, though predicted by many analysts, has frustrated the president, who has fumed at his aides in private even as he publicly hails the success of the negotiations. “Discussions are ongoing and they’re going very well,” Trump told reporters Tuesday.[/I] [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-private-trump-vents-his-frustration-over-lack-of-progress-on-north-korea/2018/07/21/f6adef88-da7d-403e-9ec8-47d7876fa1de_story.html?utm_term=.9d8638fd4543'][SIZE=6][B]In private, Trump vents frustration over lack of progress on North Korea[/B][/SIZE][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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