( CNN) Every week, I offer a glimpse of the kind of intelligence evaluations that are likely to come across the desk of the President of the United States. Modeled on the President's Daily Briefing, or PDB, which the director of national intelligence prepares for the President almost daily, my Presidential Weekly Briefing focuses on the topics and issues the President needs to know to make informed decisions.
Your friends and your adversaries are keeping tabs on your summit scorecard. Below, find an assessment of how your Singapore summit will impact meetings this month and why a summertime of successive summits may yield mixed results.
American gangster: A boulevard of broken dreams
Proliferate insults alongside weapons: Name-calling is the North Korean way of buying hour, time they use to induce more weapons. So whether we're “gangsters” or “American bastards, ” diatribes is very likely proliferate alongside North Korean weapons stockpiles over the coming weeks. North Korea has typically blamed the United States for being the aggressor and provocateur in this relationship. Our military exercises( which we have put on ice) are provocative, our sanctions( we haven't implemented any new ones in recent weeks) are provocative, your name-calling of Kim is provocative. And the North Korean response — well, they say their actions are simply defensive.
