John Bolton and the rest of the dyspeptic neoconservatives may be getting their way now after the North Korean regime threatened to abandon the upcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. Bolton and Co. have been trying to undermine the summit from the very beginning, and they may be getting what they want in the end.
On Tuesday, Pyongyang said that it might abandon next month’s peace summit with Washington if the U.S. military continues conducting military exercises in the Korean peninsula. The government also said that it was unhappy with Bolton’s CNN comments in which he said the country must agree to denuclearization to “become a normal nation.”
Does that mean the U.S. is not “a normal nation”?
Kim Kye Gwan, a vice foreign minister and a top North Korea disarmament negotiator, said in a statement published by the Korean Central News Agency (via Bloomberg):
“If the U.S. is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-U.S. summit,” he said.
“If the Trump administration corners us and tries to force us to give up nuclear [weapons] unfairly, we will not be interested in such talks anymore and cannot help but reconsider having the upcoming DPRK-U.S. summit.”
Well, it turns out that Daniel McAdams may be right after all, when he predicted on Twitter last month that Trump would not pull out of Syria and that he will not meet with Kim.
And people still insist that Bolton is helping the situation?
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