Pompeo cancels Senate briefing on North Korea deal

There is so much other important stuff going on that I missed this. We know so little about the NK deal and I certainly do not trust Pompeo to inform us.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pompeo-cancels-senate-briefing-north-korea-deal-n884836?icid=recommended

Pompeo cancels Senate briefing on North Korea deal
An abruptly canceled Senate briefing may be rescheduled for next week.

by Heidi Przybyla / Jun.19.2018 / 2:52 PM ET / Updated Jun.19.2018 / 6:26 PM ET


WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday abruptly canceled a briefing for senators scheduled for Wednesday about the deal with North Korea that President Donald Trump has hailed as a breakthrough — even while the details of the agreement remain vague.

Senate leaders informed colleagues that the briefing may be rescheduled for next week, though no date had been set, according to aides involved in the scheduling.

Pompeo has also not yet committed to a briefing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the committee with jurisdiction over any deal.

“We’ve been going back and forth about the date and subject matter and so forth. Hopefully he’ll be here soon," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the committee's chairman, told NBC. “It’s always difficult to schedule a secretary of state."


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Expectations are high that Congress will play a major role and there are many questions on Capitol Hill about what was agreed to.

After Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to meet face-to-face with a North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, in Singapore this month, several members of Congress demanded that Pompeo brief Congress on the details of any agreement. Trump has boasted on Twitter since that meeting that there is “no longer a Nuclear Threat” from North Korea, even though U.S. intelligence has determined that the country is well on its way to developing nuclear weapons and has tested ballistic missiles capable of delivering heavy nuclear warheads to the U.S.

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In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing prior to the Singapore summit, Pompeo vowed that Congress would handle North Korea differently. Specifically, he said: “It is absolutely the case that it is our intention to achieve an agreement that would be put before the United States Senate.”

Senate Democratic aides said the briefing's cancellation was cause for concern.....................................