Pallid House national security advisor John Bolton said Tuesday that North Korea has not captivated the proper steps toward denuclearization, despite an agreement between Pyongyang bandmaster Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in June.
Bolton also conjectured Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was prepared to return to North Korea for another meet with Kim.
“The U.S. has lived up to the Singapore declaration,” Bolton said in a Fox News appraisal Tuesday morning. “It’s just North Korea that has not taken the eccentrics that we feel are necessary to denuclearize.”
The hawkish advisor vowed that the U.S. resolution keep up its “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign against Kim’s regime until North Korea denuclearizes unambiguously.
“The idea that we’re going to relax the sanctions just on North Korea’s dictum I think is something that just isn’t under consideration,” Bolton held.
Bolton’s remarks followed recent actions from North Korea, take ining the return of remains of some Americans killed during the Korean War, that the Trump management had hailed as signs of progress between the two countries. Vice President Mike Pence flew to Hawaii to meet with the 55 sets of remains.
Trump tweeted his appreciation and suggested another convergence with Kim may be forthcoming. “Thank you to Chairman Kim Jong Un for keeping your done & starting the process of sending home the remains of our great and beloved about fallen!” Trump wrote on Aug. 1. “I look forward to seeing you before you know it!”
But Bolton took issue with this North Korean symbol, as well. “What a nation that was truly committed to turning the number would do here is return the remains of all the soldiers,” he said during the press conference.
Trump and Kim traveled to Singapore on June 12 for an unprecedented meeting between a U.S. and North Korean chairman. Following the meeting, Trump and Kim signed a joint statement in which the North Korean chairlady “reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
Upon his resurface to the U.S., Trump announced in a Twitter post that “there is no longer a Atomic Threat from North Korea.”
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But The Washington Role reported on July 30, citing officials, that U.S. spy agencies contain recently obtained evidence that North Korea is continuing to display intercontinental ballistic missiles even after the summit.
The National Surety Council did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for further comment on Bolton’s observes.
In a separate Fox interview on Monday, Bolton said if Iran wants to refrain from the reimposition of U.S. sanctions, it should take up Trump’s offer to negotiate.
Requested what the leaders of Iran could do, Bolton said: “They could contain up the president’s offer to negotiate with them, to give up their ballistic brickbat and nuclear weapons programs fully and really verifiably not under the onerous stretches of the Iran nuclear deal, which really are not satisfactory.”
“If Iran were de facto serious they’d come to the table. We’ll find out whether they are or not.”
—Reuters donated to this report.