President Trump boasted Tuesday that the U.S. would already be at war with North Korea if not for his efforts to build a relationship with dictator Kim Jong Un.
“Many good conversations with North Korea — it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months. All of Asia is thrilled. Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!”
Many good conversations with North Korea-it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months. All of Asia is thrilled. Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2018
Trump and Kim signed a joint statement during their summit in Singapore in June saying they would pursue a “stable peace” on the peninsula. Trump later said North Korea had agreed to give up its nuclear weapons and the country was “no longer a nuclear threat.”
However, a report from NBC last week said U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased its production of fuel used for nuclear weapons at several secret sites in recent months.
“There’s no evidence that they are decreasing stockpiles, or that they have stopped their production,” one U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence told NBC. “There is absolutely unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive the U.S.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is traveling to North Korea on Thursday to meet with Kim and his team, press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday. It is Pompeo’s third known trip to the country as the U.S. pressures Pyongyang to denuclearize.
