Trump 'remains optimistic' after North Korean summit

Washington, D.C. - President Trump is ready to continue talking to North Korea after last week's summit, National Security Advisor John Bolton said on CBS's Face The Nation.

"He remains optimistic this is possible. Kim Jong Un himself said in our last meeting, you know, we're going to go through many stations before we achieve this deal," Bolton said Sunday. "The meeting in Hanoi was one such station. So the president is ready to keep talking."

Bolton clarified that the Trump administration will maintain it's 'Maximum Pressure' campaign of economic sanctions and international resistance to North Korea's developing nuclear arsenal.

Talks between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un fell through last Thursday after the communist regime refused to offer significant consessions in return for the lifting of U.S. and international sanctions.

Bolton said North Korea was unwilling to accept President Trump's offer of giving North Korea the tools to become an 'economic powerhouse' in exchange for complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

The two sides were also unable to come to an agreement on officially ending the Korean War. Hostilities between North and South Korea ended after the ceasefire of 1953, but the war has not officially come to an end.

Still, President Trump appears committed to stopping North Korea's nuclear ambitions and bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula.