Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said Wednesday he thinks North Korea’s threat not to meet with President Trump is most likely some “bluster” that will blow over.
“I think they’re probably doing a little bluster right now, trying to show his domestic population that he’s still in control,” Kinzinger said.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger says North Korea is likely “doing a little bluster right now,” but their threat to walk away from the summit is concerning because “it just shows that North Korea is back to their old pattern of kind of give and take” https://t.co/nboxMIVfnd pic.twitter.com/jFBuLQZrIs
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But Kinzinger also said it could be a sign that North Korea’s promise to get rid of its nuclear weapons program could backslide.
“This is the old pattern of North Korea, where they on the one hand come out smiling with some unicorns that they give to South Korea, and then the next day it’s like, OK, you know, we’re gonna fight back,” he said.
North Korea threw some doubt into the idea of a meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un when a top diplomat said the regime has no interest in talking to Trump about getting rid of its nuclear program.
“[I]f the U.S. is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-U.S. summit,” Kim Kye Gwan said.
