POMPEO, THE ICEBREAKER: That giant cracking sound you heard yesterday was the sound of the ice breaking between North Korea and the United States. “We’ve started talking to North Korea directly. We have had direct talks at very high levels — extremely high levels — with North Korea,” President Trump said yesterday during his Mar-a-Lago summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “I really believe there’s a lot of goodwill,” Trump said. “A lot of good things are happening.”

When Trump said “extremely high levels” he wasn’t exaggerating. Turns out — as the Washington Post uncovered — CIA Director Mike Pompeo traveled to Pyongyang this month, and won a personal pledge from Kim Jong Un that North Korea is willing to negotiate giving up its nuclear arsenal. The covert mission sets the stage for Trump’s historic meeting with Kim, and notches a diplomatic coup for Pompeo, the man who will be secretary of state if he can just get a vote on the Senate floor.