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WASHINGTON - North Korea has no intention of giving up its nuclear weapons and Pyongyang benefits from stalling in its standoff with Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump’s ousted national security adviser John Bolton said in a speech on Monday.
In firing Bolton, Trump said he “disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions” and that the former adviser had made mistakes by demanding that Kim follow a “Libyan model” in which he would have to give up all his nuclear weapons unilaterally. In his speech, Bolton issued a litany of warnings about how Washington was handling the North Korea threat, from sanctions not being enforced effectively and U.S. complacency about Pyongyang’s missile testing to suspension of “war games” with South Korea.
“These are questions that need to focus our attention, not ‘can we get another summit with Kim Jong Un’ or ‘what the state of staff-level negotiations are to achieve a commitment from North Korea it will never honor,” he said. “That’s not an encouraging sign. That’s a sign to be worried about,” he said, while adding that North Korea’s recent testing of shorter-range missiles, which Trump has sought to play down, could help development of longer-range missiles.
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