Trump replaces McMaster with Bolton as national security adviser

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will replace his national security adviser H.R. McMaster with John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.Trump said in a Twitter post that Bolton, known as a hardliner on North Korea and Iran, will take over on April 9 ahead of a planned meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in May in a bid to achieve "permanent denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula.(H. R. McMaster, UPI/Kyodo)McMaster's departure follows Trump's dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last week.Trump and McMaster have been discussing…READ FULL ARTICLE