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kpete

(72,029 posts) Thu May 17, 2018, 04:32 PM May 2018

Trump re: NK: "We cannot let that country have nukes-We just can't do it"

“We cannot let that country have nukes. We just can’t do it,” he said of North Korea, which has been working on missiles capable of hitting the United States.

North Korea, which has abruptly changed tone in recent days after weeks of warming toward South Korea and preparations for the U.S. summit, said on Wednesday the meeting with Trump might not take place if the United States continued to demand it unilaterally abandon its nuclear arsenal

The United States has demanded the “complete, verifiable, and irreversible” dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, which Pyongyang has rejected.

North Korea has given no indication that it is willing to go beyond statements of broad support for the concept of denuclearization.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles/trump-seeks-to-placate-north-koreas-kim-over-uncertain-summit-idUSKCN1II2TR?feedType=RSS&feedName=newsOne

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Trump re: NK: "We cannot let that country have nukes-We just can't do it" (Original Post) kpete May 2018 OP

He also said that if he doesn't get a deal then we go the Libya model. I HEARD THAT RIGHT???? nt Kirk Lover May 2018 #1

Stranger - before there was concern there would be no summit, Bolton recommended the "Libya model" karynnj May 2018 #7

Why would they negotiate in earnest with someone who reneges on agreements? Hoyt May 2018 #2

Um, they already have them idiot. n/t Downtown Hound May 2018 #3

exactly kpete May 2018 #4

Iraq & Libya -- no nukes -- attacked, leaders dead. Girard442 May 2018 #5

The only country ever to use nukes on civilians... telling other John Fante May 2018 #6

So whatcha gonna do there, cupcake..too bad ya' didn't have a plan B or C or D - eom asiliveandbreathe May 2018 #8

Russia is the real problem country with nukes we need to worry about. Initech May 2018 #9

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)

1. He also said that if he doesn't get a deal then we go the Libya model. I HEARD THAT RIGHT???? nt

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Thu May 17, 2018, 04:34 PM

May 2018

karynnj

(59,507 posts)

7. Stranger - before there was concern there would be no summit, Bolton recommended the "Libya model"

Reply to Kirk Lover (Reply #1)

Thu May 17, 2018, 05:00 PM

May 2018

over the Iran model. By that he meant that after we attacked Iraq, Libya, which was starting to develop a program that could lead to nuclear weapons, handed over everything they had to start in that direction. Here is an article that speaks of Bolton's comments and the history. http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51735&catid=74&Itemid=30

When I first heard the Bolton comment - my husband and I were listening to the news in the car and both had the same obvious reaction -- this is insane given that Gaddafi was later killed! How speaking of Libya helps convince Kim is beyond me.