\u201cI think it’s going to be a lot of twists and turns along the way,\u201c he said.<\/b>
\nSen. Marco Rubio said Sunday he is deeply skeptical North Korea would actually give up its nuclear weapons, adding Pyongyang is going to try to leverage talks with the U. S. to try to receive as much sanctions relief as possible without endangering its arsenal.
\u201cMy suspicion remains that he is going to try to get as much sanctions relief as possible without having to give up his weapons,\u00a0\u00bb the Florida Republican said on CBS’s \u00ab\u00a0Face The Nation.\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0And I think it’s going to be a lot of twists and turns along the way to try to get there if it’s even possible. But I hope I’m wrong.\u201d
While the senator did not say so directly, there has long been talk on whether the United States would act militarily if there was a fear that North Korea could strike the U. S., particularly if no deal can be reached.
\u00ab\u00a0I\u2019m not in favor of that, it\u2019s not something that I relish or take lightly,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cI\u2019m just telling you that could very well be the option we wind up with at the end.\u00a0\u00bb
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Saturday night that the planning continues for a meeting between him and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12. But the president himself canceled the summit earlier this week after North Korea released a statement blasting Vice President Mike Pence and warning the U. S. of a \u00ab\u00a0nuclear showdown.\u00a0\u00bb
Before the recent push for a possible deal to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, Trump and Kim exchanged increasingly heated rhetoric as the two nations jostled each other.
Rubio called Kim’s decision to release three Americans held in the country and Pyongyang’s claim that it dismantled its nuclear weapons testing site a \u00ab\u00a0show.\u00a0\u00bb
\u00ab\u00a0I think the first thing we all have to do is stop pretending that we\u2019re dealing with the Soviet Union, the old Soviet Union or that we\u2019re negotiating with Italy or France,\u00a0\u00bb Rubio said. \u00ab\u00a0This is a very erratic regime that\u2019s very… paranoid about the rest of the world, distrustful of the rest of the world.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

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