{"id":403237,"date":"2019-04-17T01:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T00:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-the-bolton-pompeo-axis-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T01:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T00:14:17","slug":"trump-the-bolton-pompeo-axis-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-the-bolton-pompeo-axis-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#038; the Bolton-Pompeo Axis \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Patrick Lawrence eyes the U.S. president\u2019s difficulties with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton as he tries to resume peace talks with Pyongyang.<span id=\"more-35148\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/tag\/patrick-lawrence\/\">By <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Patrick Lawrence<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><em>Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Patrick-S-freeport-12-2012-Color-No-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Patrick-S-freeport-12-2012-Color-No-3-1-130x130.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-29528\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-29528\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Patrick-S-freeport-12-2012-Color-No-3-1-130x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><\/noscript><\/a>M<\/strong><\/span>oon Jae-in\u2019s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-north-korea-summit.html\">Oval Office meeting<\/a><\/span> with President Donald Trump last Thursday marked an important step forward for both leaders. The South Korean president appears to have drawn Trump away from the all-or-nothing \u201cbig deal\u201d he proposed when he last met Kim Jong-un \u2014 an offer we now know was intended to precipitate the North Korean leader\u2019s rejection. Trump won, too: The encounter with Moon has effectively put the Dealmaker back on his feet after the calamitous collapse of the second Trump\u2013Kim summit in Hanoi two months ago. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20190414000152\">A top-down agreement<\/a><\/span> on the North\u2019s denuclearization is once again within reach.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35152\" style=\"width: 1040px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/33711133138_6a953a30b6_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/33711133138_6a953a30b6_o-700x467.jpg\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35152\" class=\" wp-image-35152\" alt=\"Moon faces Trump; working lunching in Washington, April 11, 2019. (White House\/ Shealah Craighead via Flickr)\" width=\"1030\" height=\"686\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35152\" class=\" wp-image-35152\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/33711133138_6a953a30b6_o-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Moon faces Trump; working lunching in Washington, April 11, 2019. (White House\/ Shealah Craighead via Flickr)\" width=\"1030\" height=\"686\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-35152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Moon facing Trump in DC, April 11, 2019. <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">(White House\/ Shealah Craighead via Flickr)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The importance of the Moon\u2013Trump summit, while eclipsed by news of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/04\/11\/breaking-moreno-withdraws-asylum-as-assange-is-arrested\/\">Julian Assange\u2019s arrest<\/a><\/span> in London the same day, is not be underestimated. Even before receiving Moon, Trump announced for the first time that he is willing to summit with Kim for a third time. While still stressing the North\u2019s complete denuclearization as the U.S. objective, Trump also said he is open to the incremental diplomacy he precluded with his everything-at-once offer in Hanoi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u201cThere are various smaller deals that maybe could happen,\u201d Trump said before he and Moon withdrew to the Oval Office. \u201cThings could happen. You can work out step-by-step pieces, but at this moment we are still talking about the big deal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>New Stance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">This new stance is a big deal in itself. Moon and Kim \u2014 with Chinese and Russian support \u2014 have advocated talks based on gradualist reciprocity from the first. \u201cAction for action,\u201d Moon calls it. This strategy is widely accepted at the other end of the Pacific as the only plausible path to a sustainable denuclearization agreement. The U.S. has been the only nation engaged on the Korean question to argue otherwise.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In addition, Trump appeared to signal that Moon may get something he dearly wanted when he arrived&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/04\/16\/patrick-lawrence-trump-the-bolton-pompeo-axis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Lawrence eyes the U.S. president\u2019s difficulties with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton as he tries to resume peace talks with Pyongyang. By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News Moon Jae-in\u2019s Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump last Thursday marked an important step forward for both leaders. The South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}