The Kimchi Kancellation: Only hours after President Trump cancelled his June 12 meeting with North Korean Kim Jong-un yesterday, Kim said he’d be happy to sit down and talk any time. The man knows how to play the game.

It seems like just yesterday President Trump was touting himself as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. As Rudyard Kipling wrote, “A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”

Leading up to what would have been an historical meeting, The US national security adviser and vice president decided to talk tough about complete nuclear disarmament and potential regime change. North Korea, which talks tough like it’s a primary language, responded in kind.

President Trump said, “I believe that this is a tremendous setback for North Korea and, indeed, for the world.” It may be a bigger setback for Trump, who has more than hinted at taking military action if Kim won’t come to the table or let go of his nukes. This is where it gets dangerous. Will Trump take the first punch or let himself look like a world class wimp?

Ironically, all this took place the same day North Korea blew up parts of its nuclear testing site.

In his letter to Kim, Trump was both belligerent and conciliatory. “You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used,” Trump wrote. Then he said, “I felt a wonderful dialogue was building up between you and me, and ultimately it is only that dialogue that matters. Someday, I look very much forward to meeting you.”

The Insider: Representatives of President Trump were present yesterday at the opening of a meeting in which the FBI briefed lawmakers about the use of an informant on the Trump presidential campaign. John Kelly, the chief of staff, and Emmet Flood, the president’s lawyer left both meetings after introductory remarks “to relay the president’s desire for as much openness as possible under the law.”

Democrats were not happy about the appearance of the President’s people putting pressure on the FBI. The meetings were the result of an unusual Republican request to be briefed about an active investigation.

President Trump has repeatedly declared that the informant was a spy. He tweeted yesterday, “Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal. Starting to look like one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. SPYGATE – a terrible thing!”

James Clapper is the former director of national intelligence. What he said is that the Russians did affect the 2016 presidential election.

Get Out: Praising the NFL’s ban on kneeling during the National Anthem, President Trump said players who don’t stand shouldn’t be allowed to play and “maybe you shouldn’t be in the country.”

Man One: Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein whose sexually predatory behavior spawned the #MeToomovement, is expected to surrender to New York City police today on charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex on him.

Weinstein will be charged with first-degree rape and third-degree rape in one case, and with a first-degree criminal sex act in another, The NY Times reports.

For years Weinstein wielded his Hollywood power over aspiring young women in the business, treating them as objects and frightening them to remain silent. Most of the cases are too old for prosecution in other states, but not in New York where forcible sexual assault has no statute of limitations.

It’s Private: The European Union today enacts online privacy laws the cover any company that does business in Europe. It’s got Facebook and Google scrambling.

The law lets people request their online data and restricts how businesses obtain and handle the information.

Up North: Fifteen people were injured, three critically, in the bombing last night of an Indian restaurant in Mississauga in the Canadian province of Ontario. Police say they don’t know the motive for the bombing. Security video captured footage of two stocky men wearing hoodies with covered faces.

Nation: President Trump yesterday pardoned the late professional boxer Jack Johnson who was convicted in 1913 of violating the law by taking his white girlfriend across state lines “for immoral purposes.” Johnson’s story inspired the play and movie, “The Great White Hope.” — Watch out, Yogi. The Wyoming Fish and Game Commission voted to allow hunters to shoot 22 grizzly bears this coming September in what would be the biggest bear hunt in that state in 43 years. The hunt would be east of Yellowstone National Park, where the grizzlies are still protected.

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