WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. is still working toward holding a historic summit with North Korea on June 12.
Pompeo was speaking Tuesday after President Donald Trump met with the leader of South Korea and told reporters his face-to-face with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore could be delayed.
Pompeo says the State Department and White House are continuing to make sure they are “fully prepared” for a summit with the same aims: achieving the denuclearization of North Korea and creating conditions so it no longer threatens the world.
He is declining to estimate the likelihood of the Trump-Kim meeting happening.
Pompeo has met with Kim twice in Pyongyang, the highest-ranking U.S. official to do so since 2000.
Pompeo says the State Department and White House are continuing to make sure they are “fully prepared” for a summit
Oh, so Donald isn’t going then, Mike?
I was riding the elliptical and nothing else was on the cables except this BS.
Key point I took, and have repeated ad nauseam, is Sec Pompus said that China “historically assisted” in the N Korea summit, et.al., and he repeated that statement. Trump will fire his ass tomorrow for not getting the Nobel.
(there was a bunch of other crap about Iran “firing missiles at Riyadh”, i.e., being a bad hombre for arming the Houthis, just like the US did with the Taliban against the Russians, invading Iraq under false pretenses, or even the Vietnam War, but give the guy a pass. He is rock and rolling!)
Donald Trump preparing for the NK Summit …
Followed by intense preparation …
Wanna bet that they simply take this summit behind the woodshed for that Ol’ Yellar moment?
It might have to do with the observation that the only type of preparation that Trump is familar with is H…
Watching Trump trying to “diplomatize” is like watching a version of VEEP where the characters are even more venal, stupid and egotistical.