{"id":26000,"date":"2017-11-08T13:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26000"},"modified":"2017-11-08T13:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:26:34","slug":"now-potus-welcomes-talks-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26000","title":{"rendered":"Now POTUS welcomes talks with North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26001\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kim-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kim-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kim.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is all over the pea patch regarding North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The president a few weeks ago tweeted that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was wasting his time seeking a direct meeting with North Koreans regarding that country&#8217;s threats to use nuclear weapons against the United States and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but while visiting South Korea this week, the president has let it be known that he would be willing to talk to North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>Which is it, Mr. President?<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I welcome the second overture far more than the first one.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did offer some tough rhetoric during a speech this week to the South Korean parliament, warning the North about &#8220;underestimating&#8221; the United States. He told Kim that his efforts to bolster his nuclear arsenal put his regime in &#8220;grave danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That all might be so much bluster and bravado if negotiation remains somewhere on the large table of options.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to believe, as many others have said publicly, that there is no &#8220;good&#8221; military option in seeking to &#8220;de-nuclearize&#8221; the Korean Peninsula. A diplomatic solution is the only sensible path.<\/p>\n<p>My strongest hope is that the president is going to lead the nation down that path, rather than the one that is fraught with <em>grave danger<\/em> for the entire planet.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump is all over the pea patch regarding North Korea. The president a few weeks ago tweeted that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was wasting his time seeking a direct meeting with North Koreans regarding that country&#8217;s threats to use nuclear weapons against the United States and South Korea. Oh, but while visiting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now POTUS welcomes talks with North Korea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,2681,3335,6734,4398],"class_list":["post-26000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26002,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000\/revisions\/26002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}