President Trump’s Wednesday morning declaration of victory in the effort to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula was “premature” and “unwise,” said former U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell.
“I think his statement most charitably can be called premature,” Mitchell said on CNN Wednesday morning. “There’s a long way to go.”
Former US Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell says “it’s unwise and premature” for President Trump to declare North Korea is “no longer a nuclear threat” https://t.co/mNNzknZikp https://t.co/uCkWQFpYc5
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 13, 2018
Mitchell was responding to Trump’s early morning tweet that declared his talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore Tuesday successful and told the American people that they no longer had to worry about a nuclear threat from the Korean peninsula.
Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2018
“We must all hope and pray that he’s right that it does turn out to no longer be a nuclear threat,” the former Democratic Senate majority leader said. “But I think it’s unwise and premature to make that kind of declaration at this stage in the process.”
