Washington (CNN) The Trump administration is mulling a potential deal with North Korea that would accept the country as a nuclear power if it freezes its existing nuclear programs in exchange for the US lifting its "most onerous" sanctions against the country, The New York Times reported Sunday. The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump becoming the first sitting US president to enter North Korea. As a part of the plan reported by the Times, US negotiators would try to get North Korean negotiators to agree to "expand the definition" of Yongbyon, the country's main nuclear-fuel production site. A senior US official involved in North Korean policy told the Times "there was no way to know if North Korea would agree to this," and noted that in the past, North Korean negotiators "insisted" that only Kim "could define what dismantling Yongbyon meant," according to the report. White House national security adviser John Bolton also disputed the Times report Monday, tweeting that he read the story "with curiosity."

Source: CNN July 01, 2019 11:30 UTC