Nothing off table in Kim talks: WH

A spokesman for President Trump said Sunday that “nothing is being ruled out” — including a face-to-face in Pyongyang or the White House — for the leader of the free world’s historic planned summit with North Korea’s ruler.

“Nothing is being ruled out,” Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah said on ABC’s “This Week. “I have no announcement, it’s a time and a place to be determined.”

He added there’s a remote possibility that Trump might travel to North Korea to meet with President Kim Jong-un (right), whom he has mocked repeatedly as “Little Rocket Man.”

“I don’t think that that’s highly likely, but again, I’m not going to rule anything out,” Shah said.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said the site of the meeting is “a lot less important . . . than the substance of the meeting.”

What is critical, Pompeo said, is that Trump not back down from preconditions he put on North Korea for the meeting.

Kim must “stop the missile testing that he’s been hard at for the past year, continue to allow us to conduct our militarily necessary exercises on the [Korean] peninsula and leave on the table discussions for denuclearization,” Pompeo said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The Republican head of the Senate Homeland Security Committee echoed Pompeo’s remarks that Trump must keep “maximum” pressure on Kim before the summit.

“Let’s not be snookered again,” Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” referring to how past administrations had been unable to make any headway with the reclusive regime. “Let’s not be Charlie Brown to North Korea’s Lucy.”

Johnson said he and five other senators signed a letter “encouraging President Trump to make sure to maintain that maximum pressure until we see complete verifi- able and irreversible denuclearization within North Korea.”

Trump announced last week that he agreed to meet with Kim after talks were brokered between the regime and South Korea, possibly becoming the first US president to meet with a North Korean leader in history.

On Saturday, Trump said he had high hopes for the meeting, which could happen as soon as May.