Bolton: Trump Needs to Tell Xi Jinping We Can Denuclearize N. Korea the ‘Easy Way’ or the ‘Hard Way’

RUSH EXCERPT:

BOLTON: "The reports coming out of the communist party are accurate, he has succeeded in getting himself elevated to a position of strength in China. Both ideologically and in terms of stocking the leadership with the supporters and this has been a consequence of a long campaign to get there, no successor was named to him in the 19th party Congress. I think at the pinnacle of his power he can address the north Korean threat from a position essentially unchallenged. I think the president has to be very direct with him that we want after 25 years, Chinese pressure on North Korea, either to bring the regime down, to reignite the peninsula or eliminate the nuclear weapons program. If we don’t see it soon, we are going to have to consider taking preemptive military action ourselves. I am not prepared to live with North Korea with nuclear capability, denuclearization is the only way forward, we can do it the easy way or the hard way."