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Saturday 26 May 2018 - 12:12

Who’s responsible for the collapse of Kim-Trump summit?

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Who’s responsible for the collapse of Kim-Trump summit?

Jones, a writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of the Culture Wars magazine, made the remarks after Trump accused Democrats of “rooting against” the administration’s negotiations with North Korea.

“Democrats are so obviously rooting against us in our negotiations with North Korea,” Trump tweeted on Friday.
Jones said, “This is a completely preposterous claim. The reason that the negotiations for the summit collapsed is the Trump administration itself.”

“Trump made the mistake of appointing the biggest warmonger in America his national security adviser.  I’m talking about John Bolton who in the run-up for the summit with North Korea announced that they were going to deploy the ‘Libya model,’ which means what happened to Gaddafi under Hillary Clinton is going to happen to Kim Jong-un under Trump,” he stated.

“This caused outrage among the North Koreans, and rightly so. Why should anyone negotiate with the United States when the outcome is going to be the outcome of Mummer Gaddafi?” he asked.  

“And then just on Sunday Vice President Mike Pence brought up the ‘Libya model’ again. And this was finally too much. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back, and the negotiations collapsed,” the analyst noted.

“So the Trump administration has no one to blame but itself,” he said.

The model Bolton was referring to was Gaddafi’s agreement in December 2003 to surrender Libya’s nuclear weapons program, which included allowing uranium centrifuges to be shipped out to the US.

But Trump appeared to be unaware of that agreement, and interpreted the “Libyan model” to mean the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya in support of an uprising, which ultimately led to Gaddafi’s murder at the hands of Western-backed rebels in Tripoli.

Later on Friday, however, Trump said it was still possible the planned summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un could take place on June 12 as originally scheduled.  

“We’re going to see what happens,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday, one day after he canceled the highly anticipated meeting. 

"It could even be the 12th," he said referring to the original June 12 date set for the summit in Singapore.

"We're talking to them now," Trump said of the North Koreans. "They very much want to do it. We'd like to do it. We'll see what happens."

Earlier on Friday, Trump welcomed Pyongyang's response to his decision to call off the high-stakes summit.

The North Korean government said early Friday it was still willing to talk "at any time," after Trump cancelled the highly anticipated meeting, following what he called “tremendous anger and open hostility” by North Korea toward the United States.
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