Bolton undercuts Trump and says North Korea has no desire to give up its nukes

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump’s ousted national security adviser on Monday threw cold water on the president’s assertion that North Korea is ready to make a deal on denuclearization, giving his “unvarnished” view that Kim Jong Un would not voluntarily give up his nuclear weapons under current conditions.

At one of his first public appearances since his abrupt and rocky departure from the White House, John Bolton told attendees at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event that Kim "has not made a strategic decision to give up its nuclear weapons.”

In fact, he argued, “the strategic decision Kim Jong Un is operating through is that he will do whatever he can to keep a deliverable nuclear weapons capability and to develop and enhance it further.”

Bolton, who was ousted earlier this month after a year and a half as Trump’s top security aide in part because of his hawkishness, began his remarks by joking that North Korea’s leadership was likely “delighted” by the fact he was there in a private capacity.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/30/john-bolton-north-korea-nukes-011658

[Thomas Hurt]

1. The walrus repeats the obvious.

[Javaman]

9. but because a repuke said, it's now true.

if we said it, it's fake news.

[DBoon]

13. "I was the Walrus"

"but now I'm just John"

[underpants]

2. Wow John

[justhanginon]

3. Anybody with an IQ above a head of cauliflower knew that from the beginning.

That's except the "very smart" guy that got played for the fool he is by a tinhorn dictator.

[AKing]

4. That calls for another "beautiful letter" show and tell that "stable genius" will lie about.

[keithbvadu2]

5. BINGO!

Funny that he did not say that out loud when he was in Donald's good graces.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. At this stage, scum starts eating its own. . . . nt

[cstanleytech]

7. Thats if they even have them. For all we know Russia and N Korea setup a false flag mission

where Russia provides some low yield nukes for N Korea to setoff as bogus "tests" of N Korea proving it has nukes.
The payoff for Lil Kim is he can use it to intimidate his citizens and the world from trying to remove him and for Russia the payoff is it takes the worlds focus off the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Bolton is now gonna be a

[Brainfodder]

10. DUH, who didn't know that already, show of hands!

[soryang]

11. Bolton doesn't know a thing about North Korea

There are really very few countries he does understand. Like John Foster Dulles he's a person who loathes diplomacy with any state that isn't a sycophantic vassal. Outcomes don't matter to him, never did.

[kwolf68]

12. What John Bolton DOES understand is

War, Inc. needs feeding.