“The idea that we somehow exert maximum pressure on North Korea, unfortunately, is not true,” he said in an interview with Axios.
According to Bolton, the administration does not really intend to stop the development of nuclear weapons in the DPRK, even when the president calls for deterrence.
A former official believes that Washington uses a “rather rhetorical policy” regarding Pyongyang.
“The risk for the US Armed Forces and our allies is inevitable, a more effective policy is needed before the DPRK has technologies that threaten the homeland of the Americans,” Bolton wrote on Twitter.
On September 10, Trump fired Bolton. He explained his decision by the fact that he did not agree with many of his proposals.
As the US president noted, Bolton made very big mistakes.