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Trump is “Played” by Pence and Bolton, Endangering World Peace: Attempts to Resolve Crisis in Korea and Northeast Asia, Torpedoed by Militarists in Washington
By Carla Stea, May 28 2018
Evidently, Donald Trump is a political neophyte: perhaps he succeeds at making business deals, but he is strangely naïve regarding the viciousness of political chicanery and Machiavellian intrigue in Washington. There is no other explanation for his appointing John Bolton, a notorious hawk, and advocate of pre-emptively attacking the DPRK, to such an influential government position as National Security Adviser.
“Peace Negotiator” Mike Pompeo: There is a CIA Plot to Assassinate Kim Jong-un?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 27 2018
In May 2017, the DPRK accused the CIA (headed by Mike Pompeo) and the ROK’s spy agency, of “a failed plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un. Neither the CIA nor the White House responded to these accusations. While press reports acknowledged the CIA’s “long history” of political assassinations, the DPRK’s accusations were casually dismissed.
Mike Pompeo Challenged at Senate Foreign Relations Committee with regard to North Korea, Iran, Yemen
Instead of the typically gratuitous compliments and undeserved deference, there was a display (albeit a minority) of some moral courage with a rare slice of truth on Capitol Hill, epitomizing the real-time requirements of a Senator’s job: to be skeptical, provide oversight and demand accountability from every Federal government witness, no matter the rank – once referred to as ‘grilling the witness.”