Susan Rice: Kim was winner of summit with Trump

Susan Rice, a former Obama-era national security adviser, said Sunday that she believes last week's summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was a bigger success for North Korea.

"[Kim] committed to less than his father and grandfather. He got an equally broad security commitment from the United States, very vague," Rice said on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."

"But what he really got was the opportunity, for the first time, to be on the international stage as an equal with the president of the United States and all the trappings and flags designed to make him look like an equal — something that his father and grandfather had sought for years to achieve and never did," she continued.

Rice went on to deem Trump's agreement to suspend large-scale military exercises with South Korea a victory for Kim. Trump on Sunday said he requested the halt amid negotiations with the North, saying the drills "set a bad light."

Trump held a summit with Kim last Tuesday in Singapore, marking the first time a sitting U.S. president and North Korean leader met face to face.

After hours of discussions, Trump and Kim signed an agreement committing the United States to unspecified “security guarantees” in exchange for a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. The document also lacked specifics on the timeline or nature of denuclearization.

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