Saboteur Bolton Succeeds: Trump Cancels Nuclear Summit With Kim Jong-un

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
May. 24, 2018

John Bolton has succeeded in sabotaging peace talks with North Korea.

North Korea threatened to cancel negotiations early Thursday after Mike Pence echoed Trump's statements (first pushed by Bolton) about giving Kim the Gaddafi treatment.

From Yonhap News:
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea will reconsider the planned summit with the United States if Washington sticks to "unlawful and outrageous acts," its vice foreign minister said Thursday.

In a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, Choe Son-hui, a North Korean vice foreign minister, said that whether the June 12 summit between its leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump will happen as scheduled entirely rests on the decision and behavior of the U.S.

"Whether the U.S. will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision and behavior of the United States," Choe said.

"In case the U.S. offends against our goodwill and clings to unlawful and outrageous acts, I will put forward a suggestion to our supreme leadership for reconsidering the DPRK-U.S. summit," she added.

[...]Choe singled out U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, lambasting him for mentioning a Libya-style approach and military option against the North in a recent media interview.

"U.S. Vice-President Pence has made unbridled and impudent remarks that North Korea might end like Libya, military option for North Korea never came off the table, the U.S. needs complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization, and so on," she said. "As a person involved in the U.S. affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the U.S. vice-president."
Trump beat Kim to the chase and canceled the summit on Thursday.



From CNBC:
President Donald Trump canceled his historic nuclear summit with Kim Jong Un on Thursday, accusing North Korea of "tremendous anger and open hostility."

The meeting, which would have marked the first face-to-face encounter between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader, was set for June 12 in Singapore.

"Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting," Trump wrote in a letter to Kim, which was released Thursday morning.
Stocks fell and gold rose after news of the cancellation broke.

Much of the letter was written in seemingly friendly terms, including praise for North Korea's recent release of three American prisoners. In contrast, Trump also appeared to issue a threat that conjured memories of his war of words with Kim last year.

"You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used," Trump wrote.
Bolton is praying to a different god that they will be used.

Bolton's last tweet was an article from the War Street Journal saying how Trump needs his great negotiating skills on North Korea.



That aged well!

Neocon puppet Marco Rubio similarly celebrated the move:


It's too bad Trump doesn't watch Tucker Carlson instead of Sean Hannity or this whole debacle could have been avoided.



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