John Bolton's Radical Views on North Korea
The president’s new national-security adviser doesn’t seem to think the current strategy is likely to work.
The Trump administration’s plan for dealing with North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program currently consists of two main components: an international campaign of economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure against the Kim regime, plus direct nuclear talks this spring between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. The president’s new national-security adviser, John Bolton, doesn’t seem to believe that either of these approaches is likely to work.
Bolton is instead one of the most prominent proponents of a radical idea, which some hardline U.S. officials in and the have refused to rule out but have not recommended with Bolton-like conviction: striking in living memory, to prevent it from threatening the United States with nuclear weapons later.
