If only the Dems were this tough on Iran.
Via TWS:
Top Senate Democrats told the president Monday that to earn their support, any deal with North Korea must prioritize complete, verifiable denuclearization, include a tough inspections regime, and ensure the elimination of Pyongyang’s ballistic missile program.
Minority leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez, and other lawmakers laid out those demands in a letter to President Donald Trump ahead of his planned summit with Kim Jong-un next week in Singapore. If a future potential deal does not meet their conditions, the Democrats warned, Congress “must act as a check” and leverage its sanctions and oversight power.
“Any agreement with North Korea must build on the current nuclear test suspension and ultimately include the dismantlement and removal of all nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons from North Korea,” the lawmakers wrote.
A Democrat-supported agreement must feature “full, complete, and verifiable denuclearization” as its end goal. That includes the permanent dismantlement of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons infrastructure, such as test sites and research and development facilities.
Sanctions relief must be contingent on the dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, they added. “Any deal that explicitly or implicitly gives North Korea sanctions relief for anything other than the verifiable performance of its obligations to dismantle its nuclear and missile arsenal is a bad deal.”
The lawmakers said an agreement must also involve the suspension of ballistic missile testing, “including any space launch,” and the elimination of that program.