US President Donald Trump has threatened to decimate North Korea but he’s up against forces that will not be intimidated, says Professor Dennis Etler, adding that Trump “has no qualms in laying bare the barbaric imperialist nature” of the United States.
Etler, a former professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on a statement by Trump who has threatened North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with the same fate as Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi if Pyongyang does not abandon its nuclear weapons program.
Trump issued the threat at the White House when he was asked about the recent suggestion by US National Security Adviser John Bolton that the “Libyan model” be a template for dealing with North Korea at a summit between Trump and Kim planned for June 12 in Singapore.
The model Bolton was referring to was Gaddafi’s agreement in December 2003 to surrender…