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Common
06-13-2018, 04:05 AM
On his way home from his summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, President Trump met briefly during an early morning refueling stopover with the governor of Guam, the U.S. Pacific island territory which Kim last year threatened to target with ballistic missiles.
Gov. Eddie Calvo said afterwards he told Trump the territory’s people had reacted to the summit with “a big sigh of relief.”


According to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, Calvo had a short meeting with Trump in his cabin on Air Force One, thanked him on behalf of the people of Guam, and gave him a religious memento.


“Thanks for stopping by President Trump!” Calvo later tweeted. “God bless you as you continue your work to bring peace to the Asia Pacific region. I hope the First Lady likes the scapular. Safe travels as you make your way back home!”


Guam has a population of around 165,000 people, some 6,000 of whom are military personnel. The island, which is about three times the size of the District of Columbia, is home to two strategic military bases – the Andersen Air Force base, where Air Force One landed, and Naval Base Guam.


Last summer the nuclear-armed regime in Pyongyang threatened to target (https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/north-korea-threatens-target-areas-around-guam-ballistic-missiles) “areas around Guam” with ballistic missiles in order to “neutralize” what it called a U.S. military threat.


At a time of heightened tensions over its nuclear and missile programs, the regime was angered by the deployment of Guam-based supersonic bombers for combined exercises over the peninsula with South Korean warplanes.


https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/guams-governor-meets-trump-says-summit-kim-brought-big-sigh-relief

Peter1469
06-13-2018, 04:21 AM
At least he is not politicizing the summit like the MSM.