Time will tell. Ben Shapiro devoted 30 minutes of his daily podcast to analyzing the meeting. Like everyone, he hopes for the best but itemizes his disappointments and reservations. Here Shapiro appeared on Fox & Friends (6/12/18) and expressed his concerns:
-- The editors at National Review offer a sober, judicious commentary with which I am in total agreement.
-- Jonah Goldberg is skeptical and offers the quote of the day: " . . . There’s good reason to believe that if Kim were sincere about getting rid of his nukes, his own regime would kill him. The nuclear program is a unifying tool of state propaganda, celebrated and mythologized in grade schools and everywhere else in Korean society. Expecting them to get rid of them is like expecting the Hell’s Angels to forswear motorcycles in favor of minivans.
-- The Family Research Council rightly focuses on the issue of religious freedom - President Trump: “We . . . brought it up very strongly.” This issue “did come up, and things will be happening,” the president continued, recognizing that Franklin Graham has focused on this issue and has “got it very close to his heart.”
-- See the article "North Korea's Chamber of Horrors: Oppression, Slavery and Starvation."
A huge volume of prayer has been going up around the world regarding North Korea. Let us continue praying.