By Nicole Gaudiano
USA TODAY
June 12, 2018
WASHINGTON — Democratic congressional leaders blasted President Trump on Tuesday for granting concessions to North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un in exchange for a deal to work toward “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” that offered scant details on how to achieve it.
As Republican leaders reacted with cautious optimism, Democrats said Trump gave up leverage by meeting with Kim and by agreeing so quickly to halting joint U.S. military “war game” exercises with South Korea. Trump announced the concession after the historic meeting in Singapore, calling the exercises “tremendously expensive” and “very provocative” to North Korea.