White House national security adviser John Bolton said Sunday that no benefits would flow to North Korea until the peninsula is so far into the denuclearization process that it is irreversible.
Permanent, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization “is something that has to happen before the benefits start to flow,” Bolton said on ABC’s “This Week.”
WH Nat’l Security Adviser John Bolton tells @MarthaRaddatz permanent, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization “has to happen before the benefits start to flow” to North Korea. “We want to see the denuclearization process so completely underway that it’s irreversible.” pic.twitter.com/v4YWZJ3kzj
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 13, 2018
Bolton said that it must be determined if North Korea wants to become a “normal nation.”
“We want to see the denuclearization process so completely underway that it’s irreversible,” Bolton said, indicating that North Korea would not see any benefits until that point.
President Trump is meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore in a historic summit where the two world leaders will discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
