{"id":54332,"date":"2018-05-16T19:33:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/16\/analysis-ahead-of-summit-north-korea-lobs-barbs-at-bolton\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:04:57","slug":"analysis-ahead-of-summit-north-korea-lobs-barbs-at-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/16\/analysis-ahead-of-summit-north-korea-lobs-barbs-at-bolton\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Ahead of summit, North Korea lobs barbs at Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TOKYO \u2014 North Korea has a message for U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of next month\u2019s summit: Don\u2019t listen to your new hard-line national security adviser, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/04\/01\/graham-says-bolton-is-wary-of-north-korea-stall-tactics\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">John Bolton<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After announcing early Wednesday that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/15\/north-korea-threatens-to-cancel-summit-over-us-south-korea-military-exercises-news-report-says\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">pulling out of high-level talks<\/a> with Seoul because of a new round of U.S.-South Korean military exercises, the North took aim at Bolton and said it might have to reconsider whether to proceed with the summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because it doubts how seriously Washington actually wants peaceful dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The moves give the clearest indication yet of North Korea\u2019s mindset heading into the summit, scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/04\/10\/bolton-takes-the-helm-on-national-security-at-time-of-tumult\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18099589504715.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Bolton takes the helm on national security at time of tumult<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The U.S. military is bracing for a possible strike in Syria. Preparations for a high-risk North Korea summit are barreling forward. The White House staff is on edge, unsure who will be fired next, and when. And the national security team is holding its breath to see whether their new leader will be a shock to the system.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though North Korea has been for the most part silent about its intentions for the meeting, the announcements underscore two of its biggest concerns \u2014 the future of the nearly 30,000 U.S. troops in South Korea and claims coming out of Washington lately that sanctions and Trump\u2019s \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d policy are what drove Kim to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But defanging Bolton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/03\/23\/bolton-may-herald-rightward-shift-in-trumps-foreign-policy\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">the most militant of Trump\u2019s advisers<\/a>, is now also apparently a major priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe do not hide our feeling of repugnance toward him,\u201d North Korea said of Bolton in a statement attributed by state-run media to senior Foreign Ministry official Kim Kye Gwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/18\/us-forces-in-korea-arent-packing-up-just-yet-heres-why\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-927755548.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US forces in Korea aren\u2019t packing up just yet. Here\u2019s why.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Any peace deal with North Korea is unlikely to have an immediate impact on the 23,000 U.S. troops deployed on the peninsula.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hard-liner\u2019s hard-liner, Bolton was a key adviser to President George W. Bush when the U.S. tore up a nuclear agreement with North Korea in 2002. The North conducted its first nuclear test four years later. In August, Bolton defended the idea of a preventive military strike against the North, and last month suggested negotiations in 2004 that led to the shipping of nuclear components to the U.S. from Libya under Moammar Gadhafi would be a good model for North Korea as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not surprisingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2016\/04\/11\/white-house-blame-to-share-for-failed-libya-aftermath\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea bristles at the mention of Libya<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gadhafi, who agreed to abandon his fledgling nuclear program, was later deposed after a 42-year reign and was killed in 2011 \u2014 the year Kim assumed power in North Korea \u2014 while his country spiraled into chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea\u2019s statement Wednesday did not directly criticize Trump, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/13\/pompeo-us-will-need-to-give-kim-jong-un-security-assurances\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Secretary of State Mike Pompeo<\/a>, who has made two trips to the North to lay the groundwork for the summit. Instead, it stressed that North Korea welcomes Trump\u2019s position for ending the deep-rooted hostilities between their countries and concluded that if the Trump administration approaches the summit with a sincere desire to improve relations, the result will be positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"633\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18136068463113.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18136068463113.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18136068463113.jpg.jpg?resize=300,185 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18136068463113.jpg.jpg?resize=768,475 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">South Korean marine force members look toward North&#8217;s side through binoculars at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. (Ahn Young-joon\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It warned, however, of a \u201cridiculous comedy\u201d if Trump listens to Bolton and \u201cquasi-patriots\u201d who insist on \u201cabandoning nuclear weapons first, compensating afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have already stated our intention for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and made clear on several occasions that precondition for denuclearization is to put an end to anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and blackmail of the United States,\u201d the statement said, using the abbreviation for North Korea\u2019s official name, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut now, the U.S. is miscalculating the magnanimity and broad-minded initiatives of the DPRK as signs of weakness and trying to embellish and advertise as if these are the product of its sanctions and pressure,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/22\/road-to-north-koreas-denuclearization-is-littered-with-failure\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18111355411423.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Road to North Korea\u2019s denuclearization is littered with failure<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">While Seoul and Washington welcomed Pyongyang\u2019s declaration on Saturday to suspend further intercontinental ballistic missile tests and shut down its nuclear test site, the past is littered with failure.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea\u2019s dual moves Wednesday can be seen as an attempt by Kim to fortify his position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an announcement issued hours before the anti-Bolton statement, North Korea said it was pulling out of talks in the Demilitarized Zone that were supposed to be held later Wednesday with senior South Korean officials because of the military maneuvers that began earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annual military drills between Washington and Seoul have long been a major source of contention between the Koreas, but the current exercises, called \u201cMax Thunder,\u201d are particularly sensitive from North Korea\u2019s perspective because they reportedly involve nuclear capable B-52 bombers and F-22 stealth fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/24\/ahead-of-summits-us-tones-down-war-games-with-south-korea\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3251072.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Ahead of summits, US tones down war games with South Korea<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">This year, the exercises have been postponed, scaled back, probably shortened and certainly toned down. They have not, however, been canceled. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North fears the aircraft could be used to carry out a pre-emptive nuclear attack or a precision strike that would target Kim and his top lieutenants \u2014 the kind of thing Bolton advocated publicly before taking his current office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Kim has already won one round of bargaining on the military front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At South Korean President Moon Jae-in\u2019s request, Washington agreed to delay the much larger \u201cFoal Eagle\/Key Resolve\u201d drills in the spring because of the North-South diplomacy surrounding February\u2019s Winter Olympics in South Korea. Kim told visiting South Korean officials in March that he understood the drills would take place but expressed hope that they would be modified once the situation on the Korean Peninsula had stabilized, according to South Korea\u2019s government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea\u2019s announcement regarding the talks on Wednesday was in keeping with that position. And by playing the doves against the hawks in Seoul and Washington, it, too, might have been made with Bolton in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b style=\"\">EDITOR\u2019S NOTE<\/b><i> \u2014 Eric Talmadge has been the AP\u2019s Pyongyang bureau chief since 2013. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter: @EricTalmadge<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>This story has been corrected to fix spelling of former Libyan leader\u2019s name to Gadhafi.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has a message for U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of next month\u2019s summit: Don\u2019t listen to your new hard-line national security adviser, John 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