Bolton said on Monday that this focus on summitry has distracted the United States from the more important issue of preventing nuclear proliferation and ensuring that North Korea does not share its nuclear know-how and become the “Amazon†of nuclear weapons, as he put it.
“These are the questions that need to focus our attention—not whether we can get another summit with Kim Jong Un,†Bolton said. Asked whether this focus on “bromance†diplomacy could perhaps generate a breakthrough, Bolton demurred and declined to comment.
Trump’s focus on keeping the diplomatic process alive has left the sanctions regime that the United States worked hard to establish exposed to circumvention. U.N. investigators have concluded that that effort is growing increasingly sophisticated and includes ship-to-ship transfers of commodities and cyberoperations to generate cash for the regime.
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