‘Nobody should be anxious’: Trump says hours after canceling North Korea summit that it MIGHT still happen as he tells Kim ‘I am waiting’ – and so is America’s ‘massive’ nuclear arsenal
Trump wrote to Kim Jong-un to pull out of planned June 12 nuclear talks
Hours later he allowed that the summit still could happen
But in the same breath he warned Kim Jong-un that the U.S. military stands willing to hold him in check – and South Korea and Japan would foot the bill
Trump wrote in his letter to Kim: You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never be used’
VP Mike Pence told Fox News on Monday that North Korea could end up like Libya if it doesn’t make a deal with Trump
North Korea ‘s vice foreign minister Choe Son Hui fired back, calling Pence a ‘political dummy’ and ‘ignorant and stupid’
That led Trump to call off the Singapore face-to-face meeting with Kim – which he later allowed could be resurrected
Sen. Marco Rubio chimed in, mocking Kim: ‘In the words of a wise man, “Congratulations, you just played yourself”’
By DAVID MARTOSKO
DAILYMAIL.COM
24 May 2018
President Donald Trump said Thursday, hours after calling off a planned nuclear disarmament summit with North Korea, that the event planned for June 12 in Singapore isn’t completely dead.
But he warned Kim Jong-un that the United States military stands ready to jump into the breach if he tries anything ‘foolish.’
‘Hopefully everything’s going to work out well with North Korea, and a lot of things can happen, including the fact that perhaps – and we’d wait – it’s possible that the existing summit could take place or a summit at some later date,’ Trump said before a bill-signing event in the White House’s Roosevelt Room.
‘Nobody should be anxious,’ he counseled. ‘We have to get it right.’
Moments earlier he declared that he had ‘decided to terminate’ the meeting and challenged dictator the dictator Kim to scrap his nuclear ambitions in favor of joining the civilized world and escaping the West’s economic stranglehold.
‘All of the Korean people, North and South, deserve to be able to live together in harmony, prosperity and peace,’ Trump said, but ‘that bright and beautiful future can only happen when the threat of nuclear weapons is removed. No way it can happen otherwise.’
‘If and when Kim Jong-un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions, I am waiting,’ he continued, punctuating the last three words.
‘In the meantime, our very strong sanctions, by far the strongest sanctions ever imposed, and maximum pressure campaign, will continue as it has been continuing.’
Trump’s letter to Kim on Thursday boasted of America’s gargantuan nuclear arsenal, and he drove the point home at the White House.
‘I’ve spoke to General Mattis and the Joint Chiefs of Staff,’ he said. ‘And our military, which is by far the most powerful anywhere the world – that has been greatly enhanced recently, as you all know – is ready if necessary.’
‘Likewise I have spoken to South Korea and Japan, and they are not only ready should foolish or reckless acts be taken by North Korea, but they are willing to shoulder much of the cost of any financial burden, any of the costs associated by the the United States, in operations if such an unfortunate situation is forced upon us.’
‘Hopefully, positive things will be taking place with respect to the future of North Korea,’ Trump told an audience of one watching in Pyongyang. ‘But if they don’t, we are more ready than we have ever been before.’
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio threw a Twitter jab at Kim, writing that withdrawing from talks ‘is 100% the right decision.’
‘In the words of a wise man, “Congratulations, you just played yourself”,’ Rubio added, addressing him directly.
‘#KJU doesn’t want a deal. He has deliberately sabotaged the talks over the last two weeks & was setting us up to take the blame.’
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