US President Donald Trump assured that the June 12 summit between North Korea and the US would be held, The Hill reported on May 18.
During an Oval Office meeting with NATO’s secretary-general, Trump expressed his concerns over the alleged North Korean decision to reconsider the upcoming summit. The US President stressed that any official confirmation of this pulling out hadn’t been received.
“Nothing has changed on North Korea that we know of. We have not been told anything,” Trump said. “And if it does that’s fine and if it doesn’t I think we’ll probably have a very successful meeting.”
On May 16, North Korea threatened that it would call off the Pyongyang-Washington summit. Pyongyang was angered with remarks of US National Security Advisor John Bolton. He stated that Washington “is looking at the Libya model of 2003, 2004”, when Libya gave up its nuclear weapons program under the “international community” pressure and was later immersed into chaos by the US and its NATO allies intervened in Libya.
Trump stressed that “Libyan model isn’t a model that we have at all when we’re thinking of North Korea.”
The US president pointed out that he is “willing to do a lot” to offer North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un “protections” if he agrees to surrender his nuclear weapons.
“In Libya we decimated that country. That country was decimated. There was no deal to keep Gadhafi. The Libyan model that was mentioned was a much different deal,” Trump pointed out.
US President marked that the upcoming summit and further US-North Korean negotiations would allow Kim to continue “running his country” and make it “very rich.”
While North Korea demands that US guarantees the safety, Washington insists on a “complete,” “verifiable” and “irreversible” dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear program move them out of the country within six months, Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun reported citing sources aware of the situation.
On May 13, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CBS News that North Korea would receive sanctions relief, in a case of “total” and “complete” denuclearization.
“Our ask is complete and total denuclearization of North Korea,” Pompeo said. “And I said early this week I think in that sense Chairman Kim shares that same objective.”
According to a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea posted on May 15, North Korea’s government took “technical measures for dismantling the northern nuclear test ground of the DPRK in order to ensure transparency of discontinuance of the nuclear test”. The ceremony will be held between May 23 and 25.
Best of luck supreme leader kim
Kindly surrender your only deterrent and we solemnly promise to actually sharpen and oil the bayonet we are eventually raping you with…
“Washington insists on a “complete,” “verifiable” and “irreversible” dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear program move them out of the country within six months, ” ie make yourselves defenceless, THEN we’ll destroy your country, isn’t that “the Libyan model”
Let the US show the way first and do what they dare ask from others : surrendering their own nuclear weapons.
The more so that the USA are the only country who used them against people,
and much worse, against civilians, committing the genocide of two major Japanese mega-cities, the most criminal act of all human history.
Yes along with chemical weapons on German Cities like Dresden and Hamburg, etc. just as bad as Nuclear weapons.
Sadam and Gadafi dismantled theirs chemical weapons….and both countries were invaded…Assad destroyed his chemical weapons…and ISIS emerged and invaded the east!….will kim makes the same Mistake?….
They have made this mistake for 300 years. Why would Kim be different???……………..LOL
If North Korea surrender their nukes to USA, we promise you will get dollares and that US corporations will penetrate NK like it never has been penetrated before………………………………….LOL.
Here we go again….instead of giving their Nukes to USA why not offer to give it to CHINA and have USA do regular inspection on NK so that they are not restarting their nuke weapons, everyone wins..CHINA gets more nukes, USA gets to do business with NK and NK gets much needed economic aid plus respect from the international community… if USA goes back on deal or tries to invade NK then CHINA can give them back their NUKE and back to square one.
everyone wins!
Like that idea, China did say they would back NK if the US attacked them, but as everyone knows, talk is cheap. Especially with Bolton threatening the “Libya model”.
What’s the point of saying that when within a few days after your handlers pulled your ear you’ll say the exact opposite of that statement?
Does he really think that he is the one who makes the decisions?
Surrender your nukes, Kim and be attacked by force. Don’t surrender your nukes, and get verbally attacked.
And I want the US to bloody blow up and die.
I guess we’ll both be disappointed.