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CIA Director Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over Easter weekend

2018-04-18 09:45:26       source:The Washington Post

April 17, 2018


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 spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the highly classified nature of the talks.


The clandestine mission, which has not previously been reported, came soon after Pompeo was nominated to be secretary of state.


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