Hints and tips:
...Too many journalists write about Kim Jong Un’s hairstyle, or if he likes Swiss cheese, and not about the crimes he is committing.”...
...The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton, Simon & Schuster, RRP£25/$32.50, 592 pages Badly written and lacking in humility, shame or self-awareness, Bolton’s is nonetheless the best...
...“American fashion is undergoing another renaissance,” says Bolton. Modern fashion influences include names diverse and unexpected....
...Mr Bolton recalls one incident when Kim Yong Chol, a North Korean official who made an unprecedented visit to the White House, presented Mr Trump with his first letter from Kim Jong Un....
...Since leaving the White House, Mr Bolton has criticised Mr Trump over his Iran policy and handling of negotiations with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un....
...He said the threat from North Korea today was “absolutely greater” than when Mr Trump took office and began meeting with Kim Jong Un....
...Mr Bolton also writes that Mr Trump was easily manipulated by foreign leaders, including Vladimir Putin, Russian president, and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un....
...Mr Bolton said Mr Pompeo quipped that he was “having a cardiac arrest” after listening to a phone call about North Korea ahead of Mr Trump’s June 2018 summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore....
...As for his flattery of Kim Jong Un of North Korea, which Mr Bolton also describes, if it is not improper, it is certainly unbecoming....
...Early on in John Bolton’s tenure as Donald Trump’s national security adviser, the president stunned his staff by impulsively inviting Kim Yong Chol to the Oval Office for an exchange of pleasantries....
...“I think Mr Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle,” Mr Bolton has said....
...I have embraced a book-buying hybrid, picking up some reassuring hardbacks from independent bookshops, including Kim Darroch’s Collateral Damage, John Bolton’s The Room Where It Happened and JFK by Fredrik...
...On North Korea, the president keeps saying nice things about Kim Jong-Un even though Kim Jong Un keeps firing missile tests. Again, something that Bolton himself has objected to....
...(FT) The day ahead Bolton’s book After the Trump administration’s last-gasp attempt to prevent its publication failed, former national security adviser John Bolton’s book, The Room Where It Happened, will...
...Mr Bolton, known for his hardline stance against American adversaries, broke with Mr Trump over the president’s efforts to negotiate deals with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Iran’s supreme leader and the Afghan...
...*This article has been amended to clarify Mr Bolton’s involvement in the Kim Jong Un meeting. edward.luce@ft.com...
...But Mr Bolton was very sceptical of the push by Mr Trump to meet Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, just as he did not endorse the three summits with Mr Kim....
...The renewed potential for talks comes just days after Mr Trump fired John Bolton, his national security adviser and a longtime North Korea hawk and proponent of taking a tough approach against the Kim regime...
...Cullens, London Crossword 16,344: John Williams, Eastbourne, England; Reg Green, Belgium; Graham McKinnon, Salford, England Polymath 1,051: Ian Zant-Boer, Farthingstone, England Crossword 16,338: Ailsa Bolton...
...that Mr Kim had kept his word to the US president not to launch long-range missiles....
...The tweet caught both Mr Pompeo and Mr Bolton by surprise, according to two people familiar with the situation....
...John Bolton, Mr Trump’s recently ousted national security adviser, said in a talk last month that he did not believe Pyongyang would willingly surrender its nuclear weapons....
...Sir Kim also reportedly meets frequently with US national security adviser John Bolton....
...He has been credited with persuading Mr Trump to walk away from the summit in Hanoi with Kim Jong Un after the North Korean dictator offered what he viewed as a weak deal....
...Analysts said the missile tests on Thursday, which came a day after US national security adviser John Bolton met South Korean officials in Seoul, might complicate but not necessarily stop efforts to restart...
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