Kim Risks Empowering Trump Hawks With Threat to Torpedo Summit
- North Korean official slams Bolton’s view on negotiations
- Collapse of Trump-Kim meeting threatens to renew war talk
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Kim Jong Un’s regime just launched a blistering attack on John Bolton, one of the most hawkish Trump administration members. North Korea may end up emboldening the U.S. national security adviser instead.
Pyongyang on Wednesday threatened to cancel plans for Kim to meet President Donald Trump next month if the administration insisted he needs to surrender his nuclear weapons before getting anything in return. In doing so, the regime said it felt “repugnance” toward Bolton and rejected a “Libya model” he has advocated in which the regime quickly gives away its nuclear weapons.