Inside Pompeo's Fraught North Korea Trip

[TomSea]

Inside Pompeo's Fraught North Korea Trip
By Nick Wadhams

As U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touched down in Pyongyang at 10:54 a.m. on Friday he had few details of his schedule in the North Korean capital -- even which hotel he and his staff would stay in.

Not much was clear aside from lunch with counterpart Kim Yong Chol to start filling in the “nitty-gritty details’’ from the Singapore declaration signed between the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea, according to his spokeswoman Heather Nauert. A handshake with Kim Jong Un, at least, seemed certain.

In the end, Pompeo stayed at neither of the hotels where he thought he’d be. The North Koreans took him, his staff and the six journalists traveling with the delegation to a gated guesthouse on the outskirts of the capital, just behind the mausoleum where the bodies of regime founder Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il lie embalmed and on occasional display.

Read more at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-08/one-night-in-pyongyang-inside-pompeo-s-fraught-north-korea-trip

[Oceander]

Seriously?  He let himself be housed in a hotel he had no control over?

[corbe]

  OT, but it appears the 34 yo S Korean Kevin Na is about to win the Greenbriar PGA.  (with SO HI on his hat)

[edpc]

Fraught?  They make it sound like he had to run the Pitfall gauntlet in the meetings.