{"id":29269,"date":"2018-04-21T01:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29269"},"modified":"2018-04-21T01:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:23:04","slug":"great-progress-in-advance-of-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29269","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Great progress&#8217; in advance of summit?"},"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\/2018\/04\/Image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29270\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Image-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Image-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Image.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What in the world are we to conclude about this stunning bit of news?<\/p>\n<p>CIA Director Mike Pompeo &#8212; who has been nominated to become the next secretary of state &#8212; visited North Korea around Easter weekend, where he met with Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo returned from that meeting under the cover of secrecy.<\/p>\n<p>Then we hear today that North Korea has suspended its missile and nuclear tests and has announced plans to close a nuclear test site.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump fired off this tweet in response to the announcement from the reclusive North Korean regime:<\/p>\n<p><em>North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site. This is very good news for North Korea and the World &#8211; big progress! Look forward to our Summit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s tweet didn&#8217;t connect the two events &#8212; Pompeo&#8217;s secret meeting and the announcement &#8212; but Pyongyang&#8217;s statement of intent does lend a fresh air of promise to the upcoming meeting between Trump and Kim at a site to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>If the world is able to trust the mercurial Kim Jong Un to keep his word about the suspension of missile tests and the closing of a nuclear test site, then the planned summit could produce a &#8220;fruitful&#8221; outcome, to which the president alluded while declaring that could walk away from a meeting if it leads down a dead end.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m more than willing to link the Pompeo visit with what Kim Jong Un&#8217;s government has just announced. If it proves to be a valid link, then we might be on the verge of some historic developments on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent! Yes?<\/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>What in the world are we to conclude about this stunning bit of news? CIA Director Mike Pompeo &#8212; who has been nominated to become the next secretary of state &#8212; visited North Korea around Easter weekend, where he met with Kim Jong Un. Pompeo returned from that meeting under the cover of secrecy. Then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Great progress&#8217; in advance of summit?<\/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":[1424,2681,6851,7231],"class_list":["post-29269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-north-korean-nukes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269","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=29269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29271,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions\/29271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}