DEMS/MIKE PENCE/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vice President Mike Pence said in a wide-ranging speech Friday [3-1-19] that President Donald Trump and the United States will continue dialog with North Korea to pressure the country towards denuclearization, after a recent summit between the two countries was cut short due to disagreements in negotiations…But faced with Trump’s pressure campaign on North Korea, Pence said that ‘the world has witnessed the results. No more nuclear tests. No more missiles being fired.’ Pence, in his speech, also slammed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and other Democrats he said were embracing socialism, marking his first attack on Sanders since the Vermont senator entered the 2020 race. Pence framed the race as a “choice between freedom and socialism,” which is expected to be a theme for the Trump campaign in 2020.”
–Maegan Vazquez, “Pence: ‘Trump will stand firm until we achieve the complete denuclearization of North Korea’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 1, 2019 12:16 pm