WH Says NK Threatening To Withdraw From Talks Was 'Fully Expected'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Matt Shuham | May 16, 2018 11:03 am
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that North Korea’s threat the previous night to withdraw from planned negotiations with President Donald Trump was “something that we fully expected.”
“The President is very used (sic) and ready for tough negotiations, and if they want to meet, we’ll be ready, and if they don’t, that’s okay too,” Sanders told reporters outside the White House. “And we’ll continue with the campaign of maximum pressure if that’s the case. But like I just said, if they want to meet, the President will certainly be ready, and we will be prepared, but if not, that’s okay.”
“If the U.S. is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-U.S. summit,” North Korean negotiator Kim Gye Gwan said Wednesday.
Kim specifically noted National Security Adviser John Bolton’s talk of following the “Libyan model” for disarmament in North Korea: Libya disarmed and complied with international inspections, but, left unsaid by Bolton, its dictator was later violently murdered in the streets.
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to be "caught off guard"
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshtpm/status/996481338374086656
Okay. Right. 
Not just Trump, not just his family, every damn person around them blurts out whatever they think will get them through the next five seconds of the conversation without any thought as to how what they are saying fits in with what they have said before and will say later.
