{"id":64505,"date":"2018-05-17T22:55:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/17\/trump-tells-kim-jong-un-to-denuclearize-or-risk-overthrow\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:58:53","slug":"trump-tells-kim-jong-un-to-denuclearize-or-risk-overthrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/17\/trump-tells-kim-jong-un-to-denuclearize-or-risk-overthrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Kim Jong Un to denuclearize or risk overthrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump laid out a stark choice for North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un ahead of their planned summit next month: Abandon nuclear weapons and be rewarded with \u201cprotections,\u201d or risk being overthrown and possible death if the arsenal remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump maintained the scheduled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/16\/trump-us-hasnt-been-notified-about-threat-to-cancel-summit\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">June 12 meeting in Singapore<\/a> is on track, despite the North\u2019s <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\">threat Wednesday to cancel<\/a> over concerns about the U.S. push to see the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North has argued it needs its nuclear weapons to preserve its security, and has expressed concerns about giving up its nuclear program. The North cites the example of former <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\">Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi<\/a>, who died at the hands of rebel forces amid a popular uprising in October 2011; he had given up his nuclear program in the 2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/16\/analysis-ahead-of-summit-north-korea-lobs-barbs-at-bolton\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">National Security Adviser John Bolton<\/a> explicitly cited \u201cthe Libya model of 2003-2004\u2033 as a basis for the North Korea talks last month, which drew personal rebuke from the North Korean government Wednesday.<\/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\">Trying to address the North Korean concerns, the president said if Kim were to agree to denuclearize, \u201che\u2019ll get protections that would be very strong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Trump warned that failure to make a deal could have grave consequences for Kim. Mentioning what happened in Libya, Trump said, \u201cThat model would take place if we don\u2019t make a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Libyan model isn\u2019t the model we have at all. In Libya we decimated that country.\u201d Trump added. \u201cThere was no deal to keep Gadhafi.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said he is \u201cwilling to do a lot\u201d to provide security guarantees to Kim. \u201cThe best thing he could do is make a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18137662054525.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18137662054525.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18137662054525.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18137662054525.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 17, 2018, in Washington. (Evan Vucci\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also suggested China was influencing North Korea\u2019s thinking regarding the summit, pointing to Kim\u2019s visit to China immediately before Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Pyongyang last week to finalize the summit date and location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said Thursday that nothing has changed with respect to North Korea after the warning from Pyongyang. He said North Korean officials are discussing logistical details about the meeting with the U.S. \u201cas if nothing happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to threatening to pull out of the meeting with Trump, the North abruptly canceled a planned meeting with South Korean officials over joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises.<\/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\/05\/16\/this-is-the-military-exercise-that-has-kim-jung-un-spooked-and-may-throw-a-wrench-in-trumps-historic-summit\/\" 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\/AP_17202271185293.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\">This is the military exercise that may throw a wrench in Trump\u2019s historic summit<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The issue involves a joint U.S.-South Korea military exercise that Pentagon officials say should be anything but threatening.<\/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\">Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said Thursday that the schedule of military exercises hasn\u2019t changed. She added the annual exercises are long-planned, defensive in nature and meant to ensure the readiness of U.S. and South Korean forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exercise Max Thunder began Monday and concludes May 25. It includes aircraft from across the U.S. military services. Last year\u2019s exercise included roughly 1,200 U.S. personnel and about 640 South Koreans. This year\u2019s drill is similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump also said he will not discuss U.S. troop levels in South Korea during his meeting with Kim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North has said it won\u2019t return to talks with Seoul due to the exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writer Ken Thomas contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump laid out a stark choice for North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un ahead of their planned summit next month: Abandon nuclear weapons and be rewarded with \u201cprotections,\u201d or risk being overthrown and possible death if the arsenal remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":100444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,8,23,89,12,26,62],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1354,1194],"class_list":["post-64505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-flashpoints","category-home","category-middle-column","category-news","category-newsletters","category-pentagon-congress"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"WQFB6KCXDRHSRCOAXOQG34RLYQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/17\/trump-tells-kim-jong-un-to-denuclearize-or-risk-overthrow\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump tells Kim Jong Un to denuclearize or risk overthrow - Navy Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Donald Trump laid out a stark choice for North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un ahead of their planned summit next month: Abandon nuclear weapons and be rewarded with \u201cprotections,\u201d or risk being overthrown and possible death if the arsenal remains.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump tells Kim Jong Un to denuclearize or risk overthrow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Donald Trump laid out a stark choice for North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un ahead of their planned summit next month: Abandon nuclear weapons and be rewarded with \u201cprotections,\u201d or risk being overthrown and possible death if the arsenal remains.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/05\/17\/trump-tells-kim-jong-un-to-denuclearize-or-risk-overthrow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Navy Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-05-17T22:55:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T11:58:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lolita C. 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