Michael Waltz: North Korea Will Use Meetings to Buy Time To Get a Fully Capable Nuclear Arsenal

RUSH EXCERPT:
WALTZ: "Well, you know, I think what this president fully understands is that in order for diplomacy to work, north Korea and more importantly China had to believe that there was a credible use of military force. They had to believe that this president would exercise the military option before he allowed north Korea to have a fully capable nuclear arsenal capable of striking the United States and its allies. I think North Korea believes this president will go there. I think China believes it and that’s what our diplomats needed. They needed that military stick behind them to actually make diplomacy work. That said, Martha, I’m incredibly skeptical. We have seen this movie before. We know that the north Korean missile engineers are going to be busy at work. They didn’t take off a month during the Olympics. And that the head of our intelligence community has said that he believes they have about — that we have about a year before that icbm is capable of reentering the united States. So I’m very skeptical that the North Koreans are going to use this next year to buy time, drag out talks and do what they need to do to then cross the finish line and have a fully capable nuclear arsenal. So I think we need to be very, very skeptical here. We have to accept the olive branch and but we need to be skeptical."