White Area's Bolton: North Korea nuclear program will also be dismantled in 12 months

White House's Bolton: North Korea nuclear program can be dismantled in year

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday he believed the bulk of North Korea’s nuclear program could be dismantled within a year.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton attends a news conference in Moscow, Russia June 27, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Bolton also told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Washington was going into nuclear negotiations aware of Pyongyang’s failure to live up to its promises in the past.

“There’s not any starry-eyed feeling among the group doing this,” he said. “We’re well aware of what the North Koreans have done in the past.”

Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Lisa Shumaker

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December 30, 2018