[Alberta's Child]

Actually, it's the other way around.

The U.S. basically walked away from North Korea when John Bolton announced the other day that the U.S. wants to use the Libyan disarmament approach for North Korea. What foreign leader in his right mind would look at what happened in Libya and treat the U.S. as a sincere party in any negotiation of any kind?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Kim said he would denuclearize, and there is no meaningful way to do this other than what Bolton said. Kim can still bargain over whether he gets to hold onto his chem weapons arsenal or an array of short-to-medium range missiles.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Bolton was clearing up the possibility of a misunderstanding. Kim could have been under the impression that all he had to do to denuke was lock his stuff up in a government warehouse.

Bolton’s comments made it clear that that was not how our understanding was going. The term non-reversible comes to mind but to the NK translation, this may not have come through as well as “Libya style”. So now there is no longer any misunderstanding.

We are not going through this because we want to go through it over and over again. Sorry Kim.

[billyboy15]

What is insincere about saying exactly what you want as the end result of negotiations? Bolton essentially repeated Trump when he (Trump)said there can be no deal without the complete denuclearization of NK.

The fat little Rocket Man holds no cards in this game.