CIA Director Pompeo met with North Korea's Kim Jong Un weeks ago - Washington Post
|According to reporting by the Washington Post, two anonymous sources confirmed that Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, made a secret trip to North Korea over Easter weekend to establish a dialogue with the hermit country's leader.
Key quotes:
"CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a top-secret visit to North Korea over Easter weekend as an envoy for President Trump to meet with that country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, according to two people with direct knowledge of the trip."
"The extraordinary meeting between one of Trump’s most trusted emissaries and the authoritarian head of a rogue state was part of an effort to lay the groundwork for direct talks between Trump and Kim about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, according to the two people, who requested anonymity because of the highly classified nature of the talks."
"Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday, Trump appeared to allude to the extraordinary face-to-face meeting between Kim and Pompeo when he said the U.S. has had direct talks with North Korea “at very high levels.” The president didn’t elaborate."
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