A.G. Gancarski
Indications are positive that North Korea and South Korea may officially end hostilities that started in 1950. There may be a path to a peace deal. And CIA Chief Mike Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
In Jacksonville Wednesday for a U.S. Senate campaign event, a reporter asked Gov. Rick Scott about the potential cessation of conflict.
“Oh, wouldn’t you love that,” Scott said. “We’ve — you know, you feel so sorry for the people in North Korea because they don’t get to live under freedom. They don’t have the same rights that we have.”
“It’s scary [that] North Korea has made threats against the United States,” Scott added, “so we have to be able to solve this problem.”
“I’m going — you always want to be optimistic that that’s going to happen,” Scott continued. “So one, North Korean citizens can live under freedom, but also so these ridiculous threats [stop].”
The Pompeo meeting follows an announcement earlier this year that President Donald Trump will meet with Kim Jong Un.
The decades long standoff between the U.S. and North Korea escalated in the first year of Trump’s presidency after the totalitarian regime tested its first ICBM and claimed it was capable of reaching the continental United States. Tensions ratcheted up further when North Korea threatened to launch “a salvo of missles” at the Guam, a U.S. territory, over Trump’s twitter antics.
Recent reports indicate Trump and Kim will meet late May or June.
