{"id":29681,"date":"2018-05-09T17:34:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T17:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29681"},"modified":"2018-05-09T17:34:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T17:34:49","slug":"welcome-home-american-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29681","title":{"rendered":"Welcome home, American hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Three Americans held hostage are on their way home, where they’ll likely get quite a red-carpet welcome led by the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

They were held by North Koreans who held them on phony “espionage” charges.<\/p>\n

This is a most positive development, although we should take care to avoid overstating it — or understating it, for that matter.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump’s tough talk directed at North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un well might be part of a remarkable change in tone coming from the reclusive Marxist regime in Pyongyang. If that is the case — and it’s a bit early to make that final determination — then we might be witnessing a new form of “diplomacy” practiced by the leader of the free world.<\/p>\n

Trump and Kim and headed for a landmark summit. Trump is demanding an end to the Kim’s nuclear-weapon development aspirations. Kim wants assurances that the United States won’t invade North Korea. Yes, there remains a huge gulf between the sides.<\/p>\n

However, that gulf got a bit narrower today with the release of these three Americans — all of Korean descent. Let’s now hope their health is as good as it has been advertised, and that the two leaders can proceed toward a summit that leads to a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n

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Three Americans held hostage are on their way home, where they’ll likely get quite a red-carpet welcome led by the president of the United States. They were held by North Koreans who held them on phony “espionage” charges. This is a most positive development, although we should take care to avoid overstating it — or … Continue reading Welcome home, American hostages<\/span> →<\/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":[1424,2681,3335,3355],"class_list":["post-29681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29681","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=29681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29682,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29681\/revisions\/29682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}