Donald Trump Says North Korea Is “No Longer A Nuclear Threat”

President Donald Trump is claiming on Twitter that North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat with Pyongyang’s significant weapons arsenal.

Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2018

Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer – sleep well tonight!

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2018

Though the recently signed statement between the two nations seems like a step in the right direction, it does not specify a timeline or verification procedures to ensure that North Korea actually abandons its nuclear program. In comparison, the Iran Nuclear Deal, signed by former President Barack Obama and other European nations, detailed steps about how the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would monitor Iran’s denuclearization and have access to inspect any sites they deemed suspicious.

Rep. Adam Schiff mocked Trump, saying on Twitter, “One trip and it’s ‘mission accomplished,’ Mr. President? North Korea is a real and present threat,” Schiff said. “So is a dangerously naive president.”

One trip and it’s “mission accomplished,” Mr. President? North Korea still has all its nuclear missiles, and we only got a vague promise of future denuclearization from a regime that can’t be trusted.

North Korea is a real and present threat. So is a dangerously naive president. https://t.co/dufG8rVHsL

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) June 13, 2018

The president of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass said on Twitter that the summit changed nothing.

.@realDonaldTrump claim there is no longer a NK nuclear threat patently false. The summit changed nothing. Worse yet, overselling the summit makes it harder to keep sanctions in place, further reducing pressure on NK to reduce (much less give up) its nuclear weapons and missiles

— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) June 13, 2018

North Korea has repeatedly promised to denuclearize in the past and failed to follow through. In 1994, Kim Jong Il said North Korea would halt plutonium production, but the country was later discovered to have been enriching uranium from then until 2002. In 2012, North Korea agreed to suspend nuclear tests in exchange for food aid, then reversed course two weeks later.

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Concerns about North Korean missiles and nuclear weapons reached a peak last year, during Trump’s first year in office, as the North conducted more tests and Trump and Kim aimed ever-more fiery rhetoric at each other.

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2018

“You can’t ensure anything,” Trump said in a press conference on Tuesday after the summit. “All I can say is they want to make a deal. That’s what I do. My whole life has been deals.”