How to Use denuclearize in a Sentence

denuclearize

verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The optimism comes after North Korea pledged to denuclearize in a joint statement signed Tuesday.
  — Joshua Hafner, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
• Kim Jong Un has promised to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• And there was a period in the late 1990s when the two countries were still working together to denuclearize the Soviet republics.
  — Gregory F. Treverton, Fortune, 5 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Speaking at a ruling party congress last month, Kim laid out his vision for more nuclear development, while urging the US to drop its longstanding demand that his country denuclearize before any dialogue can resume.
  — Soo-Hyang Choi, Bloomberg, 9 Mar. 2026
• Even if that were not the case, the major terror groups are radically reduced in effectiveness, their sponsor in Tehran is denuclearized and contained, more countries are signing or preparing to agree to peace, investment is flowing and Russia and China have fled the scene.
  — Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
• Speaking at North Korea’s first ruling party congress in five years, Kim laid out his vision for more weapons development, vowing to build stronger intercontinental ballistic missiles, while urging the US to drop its longstanding demand that his country denuclearize, state media reported Thursday.
  — Soo-Hyang Choi, Bloomberg, 26 Feb. 2026
• Following a bilateral summit between Lee and Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Tokyo and Seoul issued their first joint statement in 17 years; pledging deeper cooperation on AI, trade, and denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
  — Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
• The president was additionally nominated for the prize last year for the brokerage of the Abraham Accords and by 18 House Republicans in 2018 for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and ending the 68-year-old war between North and South Korea.
  — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 31 July 2025