US national security advisor John Bolton denied Sunday that last week’s nuclear summit with North Korea was a failure, despite President Donald Trump coming home empty-handed. A high-stakes second meeting to strike a nuclear disarmament deal between the North’s leader Kim Jong Un and Trump broke up in disarray Thursday, without even a joint statement. But Bolton told CBS’s “Face the Nation” Trump’s failure in getting commitments from Pyongyang on destroying its nuclear capability should be seen as “a success, defined as the president protecting and advancing American national interests.” The White House aide said the issue was whether North Korea would accept what the president called “the big deal” — denuclearizing completely or something less, “which was unacceptable to us.” “So the president held firm to his view. He deepened his relationship with Kim Jong Un. I don’t view it as a failure at all when American national interests are protected.” The outcome in Hanoi fell far short of the pre-meeting expectations, after critics said their initial historic meeting in Singapore — which produced only a vague commitment from Kim to work “toward complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” — was more style over substance. Others pointed to a… Read full this story
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