This is GPS, the Global Public Square.

Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zikarya coming to you live from New York.

Today on the show, a stunning development.

President Trump says he will meet with North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.

Will it happen? What could get accomplished is the denuclearization of North Korea

actually in the cards. I have a great panel to discuss.

Also, four-star general Martin Dempsey, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

the man who advised President Obama on all matters military, talks about the challenges

facing President Trump. And I ask for his stake on the many generals around President Trump.

Is it appropriate to have so many in a civilian government?

But first, here's my take. The news on the Korean Peninsula is being described as a

diplomatic breakthrough. And it is for North Korea. It has been the goal of North Korea for decades now

to have a high profile one-on-one summit meeting with the President of the United States.

Kim Jong-un's father, Kim Jong-il, wanted such a meeting with President Clinton.

The Clinton administration agreed to send Secretary of State Madeline Allbright to North Korea

to begin talks and see if enough progress was made to warrant a presidential summit.

It concluded that there wasn't. The Bush administration, which labeled North Korea

part of the Axis of evil, was even cooler on high-level talks.

The Obama administration achieved breakthroughs with the Cuban and Iranian regimes

through high-level contexts, but gave up on diplomacy with the North Korean regime

because of its unwillingness to denuclearize. It adopted instead a policy of pressure.

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