North Korea's Nukes Should Be Tennessee Bound: Bolton

OAK RIDGE, TN -- National Security Adviser John Bolton wants North Korea's nuclear arsenal brought to Tennessee, he told ABC News Sunday.

Pressed on what the Trump Administration means by "denuclearization" of North Korea, Bolton said "getting rid of all the nuclear weapons, dismantling them, taking them to Oak Ridge."

“It means getting rid of the uranium enrichment and plutonium processing capabilities. It means addressing the ballistic missile issue. A lot of things like that,” he said on "This Week."

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There are two nuclear facilities in the once-secret city 25 miles west of Knoxville: the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex.

Y-12, which, among other things, produces nuclear weapons, holds documents and materials from Libya's fledging nuclear weapons program. The late Muammar Gaddafi, the Brotherly Leader of Libya until his death during the 2011 Libyan revolution, agreed to dismantle the program in 2003. The difference in the Libyan and Korean situation is that Gaddafi's regime hadn't yet developed a weapon, whereas North Korea has bombs and missiles with some level of functionality.

President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Un are scheduled for a summit in Singapore June 12 and both sides have hinted the talks will include "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." While Bolton made it clear what the White House means by denuclearization, Kim has not defined the word nor made it clear what he'd have to be offered to make that happen.

Nevertheless, North Korea said in April it would stop testing its nuclear weapons. This weekend, the country said it would begin breaking down its test site.

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