After all the noise and saber rattling by Donald Trump?
It comes down to talking, diplomacy ….
The hard part?
I doubt North Korea will full give up its nuclear program and I would think the North Korea’s will ask for a reduction in the number of American troops on South Korean soil……
There is no reason for Trump to go to meet Kim Jong Un unless there is a agreement of some sort…
Pompeo is trying to get confirmed as Sec of State….
CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a top-secret visit to North Korea over Easter weekend as an envoy for President Trump to meet with that country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, according to two people with direct knowledge of the trip.
The extraordinary meeting between one of Trump’s most trusted emissaries and the authoritarian head of a rogue state was part of an effort to lay the groundwork for direct talks between Trump and Kim about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the highly classified nature of the talks.
The clandestine mission, which has not previously been reported, came soon after Pompeo was nominated to be secretary of state.
“I’m optimistic that the United States government can set the conditions for that appropriately so that the president and the North Korean leader can have that conversation [that] will set us down the course of achieving a diplomatic outcome that America so desperately — America and the world so desperately need,” Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week during his confirmation hearing….