Former Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left the Singapore summit with nearly everything he wanted.
Blinken's comments came during a Tuesday interview on CNN's "New Day."
"Kim Jong Un has pretty much got everything up front ... " he said. "And for what? A piece of paper that commits him to very little, and certainly is not even as detailed as commitments he's made before."
And he maintained that President Donald Trump's comments about how successful negotiations were with Kim will impact future talks.
"The more President Trump talks up the success of the summit, the more it's a green light to countries like China that they can take the pressure off – pressure that President Trump helped build in North Korea," Blinken said. "That takes away our leverage to keep them at the table and keep them focused on doing the right thing."
In January 2017, prior to leaving the State Department, Blinken had warned that North Korea had demonstrated a "qualitative" improvement in its nuclear and missile capabilities.
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