Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has said that former President Donald Trump wants Americans to treat him the way North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is treated in the reclusive country.
Bolton, who served as national security advisor under Trump from 2018-2019, made the remarks against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in a social media post. He is known to have been at odds with Trump over major foreign policy issues while in office.
“Donald Trump wants Americans to treat him like North Koreans treat Kim Jung Un. Get ready,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday.
Bolton has voiced sharp criticism of Trump, including through his memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”
In a new edition of the memoir published in January, Bolton warned that Trump, if reelected, could attempt to reach a “reckless” deal on North Korea’s nuclear program that would alienate South Korea.
Source: Yonhap News Agency