{"id":351758,"date":"2018-03-11T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-could-have-gotten-more-for-kim-meeting\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:07:00","slug":"presstv-trump-could-have-gotten-more-for-kim-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-could-have-gotten-more-for-kim-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump \u2018could have gotten more\u2019 for Kim meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump \u201ccould have gotten more\u201d for meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, says a former CIA official.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell told CBS on Sunday that such a meeting would amount to \u201clegitimacy\u201d for Kim at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I think that North Korea in general and Kim Jong Un, in particular, put a very high value on being seen as meeting with the president of the United States,\u201d he said. \u201cIt gives him legitimacy both at home and abroad. It&#8217;s very important to him. He has gotten \u2014 he will get that if this happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further suggested that the North Korean leader would continue his missile and nuclear tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has only given a short-term freeze in missile and nuclear tests, right? I think we could have gotten more for what he really wanted here,\u201d Morell asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Trump recently agreed to appear as the first sitting US president to meet with a North Korean leader, a meeting that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/11\/555140\/ExCIA-official-says-Trump-could-have-gotten-more-for-Kim-meeting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump \u201ccould have gotten more\u201d for meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, says a former CIA official. Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell told CBS on Sunday that such a meeting would amount to \u201clegitimacy\u201d for Kim at home. \u201cSo, I think that North Korea in general and Kim Jong Un, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}