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

[Right_in_Virginia]

CIA Director Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over Easter weekend
Washington Post, Apr 17, 2018, Shane Harris, Carol D. Leonnig, Greg Jaffe and David Nakamura

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.


More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-china-trade-dispute-looms-over-trump-summit-with-japans-abe/2018/04/17/2c94cb02-424f-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.97464f11998d

[corbe]

   This looks like it maybe moving beyond the RocketMan, size of buttons, Tweet stage, still early, but if Trump pulls this off~that is a great accomplishment.

[Cyber Liberty]

   This looks like it maybe moving beyond the RocketMan, size of buttons, Tweet stage, still early, but if Trump pulls this off~that is a great accomplishment.

Probably not, now that WaPo has gotten hold of the story.  It will be spun to ridiculous lengths, and whatever good Pompeo has done will be rubbished.