How to Use denuclearize in a Sentence

denuclearize

verb

• The agreement includes a pledge by the North to denuclearize, but no timetable has yet been given for the completion of that process.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2018
• Trump tweeted just last month that the country had agreed to denuclearize.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 30 May 2018
• Trump will try to pressure the North to denuclearize very quickly or face stiff penalties.
  — Ella Nilsen, Vox, 28 Apr. 2018
• Jo went on to warn that too much pressure to denuclearize would be considered by North Korea as an act of war.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2023
• During the summit, the pair signed a vague joint statement in which the North agreed to denuclearize, but which left nearly all details undefined.
  — Zeke Miller and Matthew Lee, Fox News, 25 Aug. 2018
• The agreement signed by Kim and Trump is a broad statement of intent to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 15 June 2018
• Talks with North Korea could be falling apart as Kim Jong-un doesn't seem to be taking the necessary steps to denuclearize his country.
  — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
• This guy is willing to go to the mat militarily to denuclearize the peninsula and stop my missile tests.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2018
• North Korea flatly rejected calls from the South to denuclearize last week.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2022
• While Kim's regime seeks sanctions relief, Mr. Trump aims to strike a deal to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.
  — CBS News, 11 June 2018
• The Trump approach required North Korea to denuclearize first and get the benefits later.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 18 June 2020
• The optimism comes after North Korea pledged to denuclearize in a joint statement signed Tuesday.
  — Joshua Hafner, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
• To the extent that North Korea can be convinced to denuclearize, they must be reassured of their regime’s long-term security.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 13 June 2018
• Kim Jong Un has promised to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• Eui-yong stated Trump would meet with Kim to permanently denuclearize.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• But Trump has continuously claimed since meeting with Kim that the North Korean leader has agreed to denuclearize.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 2 July 2018
• But in fact, Pyongyang also suspended tests for a while under President Barack Obama, and promised to denuclearize.
  — NBC News, 7 July 2018
• Given the distance between the two sides, and the unlikelihood that North Korea will fully denuclearize, a lasting agreement does not seem possible.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2018
• The project shows how the two Koreas are extending their cooperation even with sanctions in place on Pyongyang and in the absence of concrete North Korean steps to denuclearize.
  — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2019
• At a very high level, both America and China agree that there should be some combination of pressure and dialogue to denuclearize North Korea.
  — S. Nathan Park, The Atlantic, 18 July 2017
• Trump is seeking to get North Korea to agree to denuclearize but acknowledged that is not likely to happen immediately.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• There is ongoing debate over whether harsh sanctions can pressure Kim to denuclearize or will keep him away from the negotiating table.
  — Deb Riechmann, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
• De Klerk made a unilateral decision to denuclearize in secret, with little input from the outside world.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
• Neither Kim nor Trump has tabled talks to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, but prospects over future discussions were unclear.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2019
• Human rights activists say the U.S. has to press for concessions on human rights as part of the nuclear negotiations, because the only way North Korea will denuclearize is if the character of the regime also changes.
  — NBC News, 11 June 2018
• Confirming a willingness to denuclearize is not enough.
  — David E. Sanger and Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Washington and Seoul demurred, saying Pyongyang first must show genuine intent to denuclearize.
  — Kim Tong-Hyung, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
• Still, the looming potential missile test underscores the lack of progress on efforts to denuclearize North Korea, which has pursued an aggressive expansion of its weapons program since the 2019 collapse of diplomatic talks with the United States.
  — Seung Min Kim, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• Kim insisted that his country could denuclearize only in phases.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Is the president putting himself at significant risk worth it to possibly denuclearize North Korea?
  — Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 12 Mar. 2018

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