Article snippet: “He stares at these problems and says if we keep banging away the way we have been forever — the positions are staked out — the likelihood of success is almost nil,” he told The Washington Times. “Let’s try and come at this from a different direction.” The president was going to be in South Korea after Group of 20 meetings in Japan “and says, ‘I’m gonna be up there,’” Mr. Pompeo recounted. “From Pyongyang to the border is not that far. Maybe Chairman Kim will come meet me!” This alone would be enough to make history. But Mr. Trump was not finished doing things differently. “He decides the best way to communicate this is to the world,” Mr. Pompeo said. So Mr. Trump took to Twitter. “After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon),” the president tweeted to his 61 million followers around the world at 7:51 a.m. Saturday. “While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!” Within an hour, Mr. Pompeo said, they heard from officials in North Korea. “They responded saying, ‘Hey, what does this mean? What are you really thinking?’” It was, Mr. Pompeo said, “20, maybe 30, hours between tweet and meeting.” Globe-trotting week In his first interview just hours after returning from the DMZ with Mr. Trump, Mr. Pompeo is clearly pleased with the day’s events. He is seated at the desk in his office a... Link to the full article to read more