Washington sources reported that President Donald Trump has named former ambassador and Fox News analyst John Bolton as his new National Security Adviser replacing Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. Meanwhile the media reports said the President announced the news saying that Bolton would take the job starting April 9, making him Trump's third National Security Adviser in the first 14 months of his presidency.
Meanwhile according to sources Trump and Bolton's hard edged, hawkish views on issues like North Korea, Iraq and Syria make him a controversial pick especially ahead of a proposed meeting between Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un. Moreover Bolton is a fierce North Korea hawk who, in his prolific writings and television commentary, has said that pre-emptive war would likely be the only way to stop North Korea from obtaining the capability to attack the US with a nuclear missile.
Furthermore Bolton, who had dismissed negotiations with North Korea as a
waste of time, moderated his views slightly after Trump announced he would sit
down with Kim, suggesting that the encounter between the two leaders would be
short and largely devoid of traditional diplomacy.
