{"id":403405,"date":"2019-04-20T01:34:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T00:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pompeo-is-hit-man-for-trump-administration\/"},"modified":"2019-04-20T01:34:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T00:34:28","slug":"presstv-pompeo-is-hit-man-for-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-pompeo-is-hit-man-for-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Pompeo is hit man for Trump administration\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo has served as a hit man for the administration of President Donald Trump, says Professor Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Etler, a professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has suggested that it wants Pompeo disengaged from stalled negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington, blaming the top American diplomat for the derailment of bilateral talks.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement run by North Korea\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Thursday, Kwon Jong-gun, a North Korean Foreign Ministry official, criticized Pompeo for \u201cfabricating stories like a fiction writer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am afraid that, if Pompeo engages in the talks again, the table will be lousy once again and the talks will become entangled,\u201d Kwon said.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Etler said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/04\/18\/593776\/Pompeo-is-hit-man-for-Trump-administration\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo has served as a hit man for the administration of President Donald Trump, says Professor Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs. Etler, a professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, made the remarks in an interview with Press [&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-403405","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\/403405","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}