Amid reports North Korea isn\u2019t going along with denuclearization, Trump wants everyone to thank him for not being at war.<\/b>
\nAmid reports that North Korea is not winding down its nuclear arsenal as promised, President Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter on Tuesday morning. He declared that if it were not for him, the United States would be at war with North Korea.
There have been multiple reports in recent days indicating that North Korea is increasing production of fuel for nuclear weapons, improving infrastructure at one of its nuclear facilities, and figuring out ways to hide its weapons and production from the United States. The reports have landed less than a month after President Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a summit in Singapore, where Trump claimed to have secured denuclearization from North Korea.
If recent reports, which cite US intelligence agencies, of North Korea\u2019s activities are correct, it appears that North Korea is trying to get as much as it can out of Trump \u2014 who has already offered major concessions, including canceling joint US-South Korean exercises on the Korean peninsula \u2014 while keeping its nuclear activities going.
On Tuesday morning Trump said in a tweet there were \u201cmany good conversations\u201d with North Korea going on and bragged that it has been months since the country last launched rockets or tested nuclear missiles. \u201cAll of Asia is thrilled,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOnly the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining,\u201d he added. \u201cIf not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!\u201d
Trump isn\u2019t the only one in the administration in denial about what\u2019s happening in North Korea. His national security adviser John Bolton in a Sunday appearance on CBS\u2019s Face the Nation said the White House is \u201cvery well aware of North Korea\u2019s patterns of behavior over decades of negotiating with the United States.\u201d In the same interview, he asserted that the US would be able to \u201cdismantle the overwhelming bulk\u201d of North Korea\u2019s programs within a year.
As Vox\u2019s Alex Ward pointed out, North Korea experts reacted negatively to Bolton\u2019s assertions. North Korea has not disclosed where its nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons are, and it\u2019s unlikely that it\u2019s willing to dismantle its nuclear program.
On June 13, the day after his Singapore trip, Trump declared in a tweet there was no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.
In months prior to the summit, his tweets and comments had ignited fears that nuclear war with North Korea might actually become a reality.
Trump and Kim exchanged a string of insults and threats. Trump insulted Kim\u2019s weight and height, and Kim went after Trump\u2019s age, infamously referring to him as \u201c mentally deranged \u201d and a \u201cdotard.\u201d Trump in August of last year threatened to meet North Korea with \u201c fire and fury like the world has never seen \u201d if Pyongyang made more threats.
Tensions have eased in recent weeks, but the threat of imminent war was always one that Trump helped create.<\/p>\n

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