Trump Rebuts Bolton, Says Libya Isn’t a Model for Kim Talks
- North Korea warns of ‘rupture’ with South as Trump moves ahead
- Trump says China’s Xi may be encouraging Kim on harder line
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U.S. President Donald Trump rebutted his national security adviser, telling reporters that he didn’t consider the nuclear disarmament of Libya a model for negotiations with North Korea over its atomic weapons program.
“The Libya model isn’t a model we have at all” for North Korea, Trump said Thursday during a White House meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Trump also suggested China, engaged in a trade fight with the U.S., could be encouraging North Korea’s turn toward a harder line on nuclear negotiations and he repeated a threat against Kim Jong Un’s regime if talks collapse.