John Bolton flays Trump for North Korea policy failure

Bloomberg

Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton told news service Axios that President Donald Trump’s administration should admit its approach to end North Korea’s nuclear arms program has “failed.”
Bolton suggested the Trump administration is bluffing about stopping North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and it would be “very unusual” for his former employer to say that they got it wrong, he said on Monday.
Bolton said the US could be doing more to tighten sanctions choking North Korea’s economy, which would force the hand of leader Kim Jong Un. “The idea that we are somehow exerting maximum pressure on North Korea is just unfortunately not true,” he told Axios.
The former White House official, who sat with the US president across the table from Kim at summits in Singapore and Hanoi, doubted the administration “really means it” when Trump and top officials pledged to stop North Korea from having nuclear weapons.