The former national security advisor said he does not think North Korea will ever voluntarily surrender its nuclear weapons, regardless of what Kim Jong Un tells Trump.
The North has returned to its characteristic belligerent statements in recent months as talks have floundered. Officials have indicated that if there is still no progress by the end of the year, the North will conduct a major weapons test, risking a significant escalation in regional tensions.end-of-year threats
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands before a meeting in the Korean Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019.Bolton—a foreign policy hawk who has pushed for regime change in North Korea—repeated previous assertions that the country will never give up its nuclear weapons voluntarily."There's simply no evidence, and there never has been for decades, that they are making a strategic decision not to proceed," he told NPR.
For all Trump's boasts of his historic detente with the North Koreans, little of note has been achieved since the president met Kim in Singapore in June 2018.in Hanoi, Vietnam, collapsed and ended early, with the two sides unable to agree on a denuclearization timetable. "The fact that they're not doing anything today, and they didn't do anything yesterday that we can see, is not a good sign," Bolton warned."It probably just means we're not seeing it. But the longer time goes on, the greater their capability will become."
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