This is what happens to leaders without a deterrant who offer the hand of friendship to the Empire.
Iran knows this better than anyone.
Iran
warns North Korea: Trump could cancel deal before getting home
13
June, 2018
LONDON
(Reuters) - Iran warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday
against trusting U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he could cancel
their denuclearization agreement within hours.
U.S.
President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walk
during their summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in
Singapore June 12, 2018. Anthony Wallace/Pool via Reuters
Tehran
cited its own experience in offering the advice to Kim a month after
Washington withdrew from a similar deal with Iran.
Trump
and Kim pledged at a meeting in Singapore on Tuesday to work toward
complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula while Washington
committed to provide security guarantees for its old enemy.
“We
don’t know what type of person the North Korean leader is
negotiating with. It is not clear that he would not cancel the
agreement before returning home,” Iranian government spokesman
Mohammad Bagher Nobakht was quoted as saying by IRNA new agency.
Nobakht
questioned Trump’s credibility. “This man does not represent the
American people, and they will surely distance themselves from him at
the next elections,” he said.
As
well as pulling the United States out of the 2015 nuclear deal with
Iran, Trump disowned on Saturday a joint communique issued by Group
of Seven leaders, just hours after he had left their summit for the
meeting with Kim.
Israel,
which has hailed Trump’s tough line on Iran, praised his summit
with Kim. “This is an important step in the effort to strip the
Korean peninsula of nuclear weaponry,” Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said in a statement.
“President
Trump is also taking a firm stance against Iran’s attempt to obtain
nuclear weaponry, as well as its belligerence in the Middle East.”
Israel
is believed to have the region’s sole atomic arsenal.
Trump
has said would be open to striking a new nuclear accord with Tehran.
However, he says the existing deal negotiated under his predecessor
Barack Obama had failed to address Iran’s ballistic missile
program.
On
top of this, he also cited the terms under which international
inspectors can visit suspect Iranian nuclear sites and “sunset”
clauses, under which limits on the nuclear program start to expire
after 10 years.
Trump
has insisted any deal with North Korea should include irreversible
and verifiable denuclearization.
Washington
will reimpose a wide array of Iran-related sanctions after the expiry
of 90- and 180-day wind-down periods, including measures aimed at the
oil sector and transactions with its central bank.
Other
remaining signatories of the deal - Britain, China, France, Germany
and Russia- have criticized the U.S. exit and are still trying to
salvage the accord.
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