CNN analyst MaxBoot says national security adviser John Bolton is earning a medal in tap dancing because “he’s clearly tap dancing around the fact that he is very deeply opposed to what President Trump is doing in the case of North Korea.”
"The best thing North Korea could do right now would be to give us a full accounting of what happened and who was responsible for it," Bolton said to CNN's Jake Tapper on"State of the Union."Bolton was also asked if he takes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at his word that he didn't know of Warmbier's suspected torture."The President takes him at his word," Bolton told Tapper. Pushed again, Bolton replied,"My opinion doesn't matter.
"Warmbier, an American student, was taken captive by the North Korean regime for 17 months and released back to the US in 2017. He died a few days after he returned home blind, deaf and with severe brain damage.After a second summit with Kim in Vietnam last week, Trump said he accepts the North Korean dictator's denial that he knew of Warmbier's condition in captivity.
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