North Korea Threatens to Scrap Trump Meeting on Nuclear Demands

  • Regime criticizes U.S.’s ‘one-sided’ disarmament demands
  • Cites ‘Libya model’ sought by Trump security adviser Bolton
Is North Korea rethinking the Trump-Kim summit? Bloomberg’s Peter Pae reports.Source: Bloomberg
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North Korea threatened to walk away from its meeting with President Donald Trump next month if the U.S. made a “one-sided demand” for the regime to surrender its nuclear weapons.

Kim Kye Gwan, a vice foreign minister and a top North Korea disarmament negotiator, said the regime was disappointed by recent comments from the U.S. on their goals for the summit, according to a statement published Wednesday by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. Kim said North Korea felt “repugnance” toward National Security Adviser John Bolton and rejected a “Libya model” in which the regime quickly gives away its nuclear weapons.