Kim should commit to disarmament timetable: US

Bloomberg

The White House wants North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to commit to a timetable to surrender his country’s nuclear arsenal when he meets President Donald Trump next week in Singapore, a high-stakes summit that could last as long as two days — or just minutes.
Trump has been advised not to offer Kim any concessions, as the White House seeks to put the onus on the North Koreans to make the summit a success, one US official said. The president is determined to walk out of the meeting if it doesn’t go well, two officials said. Alternatively, Trump is toying with the idea of offering Kim a follow-up summit at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida if the two men hit it off.
Other than announcing that the two leaders will first meet at 9 am Singapore time June 12 at the Capella Hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa Island, the White House has described no schedule for the summit. If the first meeting goes well, there will be further events that day and perhaps even on June 13.
Trump will be joined in Singapore by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his Chief of Staff John Kelly and National Security Adviser John Bolton. The US delegation also tentatively includes the CIA’s top Korea expert, Andrew Kim; the National Security Council’s point person on Korea, Allison Hooker; and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, who has negotiated much of the groundwork for the summit with the North Koreans.
Notably absent from Trump’s delegation: Vice President Mike Pence, who will remain in the US, and Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Mattis said on Sunday at a defense conference in Singapore that North Korea will win relief from crippling US economic sanctions “only when it demonstrates verifiable and irreversible steps to
denuclearisation.”

Trump’s Preparations
North Korea has publicly bristled at US officials’ insistence that it must agree to disarm before receiving anything in return, instead calling for a step-by-step approach to ridding the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons.
Trump has indicated flexibility in his approach, although it’s still unclear what a path to denuclearisation would look like.