On Bolton, Kim said, "We do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him."....

[riversedge]

umm. I did not realize KIM really hit Bolton so hard.




http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/388613-north-korea-did-trump-a-favor-by-snubbing-bolton

North Korea did Trump a favor by snubbing Bolton
By Tom Z. Collina, opinion contributor — 05/21/18 12:30 PM EDT

It was pure fantasy to think that North Korea was going to turn over its nuclear arsenal within months of the planned June 12 Trump-Kim summit. Yet, apparently, National Security Adviser John Bolton has an active imagination.

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Nevermind that Libya had a minuscule nuclear program hardly comparable to North Korea, or that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed in 2011 after the United States and European allies attacked the country.

The lesson to North Korea was clear: If you don’t want to end up like Gaddafi, don’t give up your nukes unless you have another way to guarantee your security.

So it should have come as no great surprise when on Wednesday, North Korean First Vice-Minister Kim Kye Gwan issued a statement rejecting Bolton’s approach, and Bolton personally, outright.


He criticized the “so-called Libya mode of nuclear abandonment” as “absolutely absurd” and the notion of "abandoning nuclear weapons first, compensating afterwards” as a “sinister move.” On Bolton, Kim said, “We do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him.”...............................

[spanone]

1. I didn't realize that I had ANYTHING in common with Un.

[FSogol]

2. You beat me to it. Who knew?

[Sneederbunk]

3. Re summit, Kim tell Trump to leave Bolton at home. He will do it.

[bitterross]

4. Most rational people do not hide their feelings of repugnance for Bolton.

I think the Vice-Minister speaks for a lot of people with that statement.