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“Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong-un in North Korea last week. Meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed. Details of Summit are being worked out now. Denuclearization will be a great thing for World, but also for North Korea!” read the tweet from the US president.

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NORTH KOREA leader Kim Jong-un has spoken out in support of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad after a US-led coalition launched a strike on chemical weapons factories in retaliation for an alleged gas attack on the city of Douma.

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An unnamed South Korean official told local media that both sides of the Korean conflict are in talks to announce a permanent end to the Korean War that began in 1950. Leaders of the two countries are supposed to meet in a summit next week. A truce, not a peace treaty, has been in effect since 1953.

Trump Confirms Mike Pompeo Had Secret Meeting With Kim Jong-un

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Secret North Korea meeting in ‘everybody’s best interest’

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World on brink of World War 3: North Korea TEAMS UP with Syria to defend ‘just cause’ – DAILY NEWS

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NORTH KOREA leader Kim Jong-un has spoken out in support of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad after a US-led coalition launched a strike on chemical weapons factories in retaliation for an alleged gas attack on the city of Douma.

Negotiations Over? Kim No Longer a Threat

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- A Washington Post story suggested CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who has been nominated as Secretary of State, secretly met with Kim Jong-un over the Easter weekend. The White House has declined to comment. – In a press conference on Monday, President Trump said his administration and North Korea had direct talks at “very high levels.” When asked if he has spoken to Kim directly, Trump replied, “Well, let’s leave it a little bit short of that.”

Donald Trump has ‘direct talks with North Korea at EXTREMELY high levels’ – DAILY NEWS

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has had “direct talks” with North Korea’s ruling regime at an “extremely high level” and will reveal where he’s meeting Kim Jong-un “fairly soon”.

Mike Pompeo had secret meeting with Kim Jong-un

CIA director and secretary of state nominee Mike Pompeo traveled to Pyongyang last week for a secret meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. President Donald Trump confirmed the meeting Wednesday morning in a tweet.

“Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong-un in North Korea last week. Meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed. Details of Summit are being worked out now. Denuclearization will be a great thing for World, but also for North Korea!” read the tweet from the US president.

Pompeo’s meeting with Kim came at a busy time for the prospective secretary of state. Pompeo faced a grilling from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Thursday. After being pressed for five hours on his diplomatic credentials, helping orchestrate a meeting between US and North Korean diplomats would be a major coup for the as yet untested diplomat, who still carries a reputation in Washington as a “war hawk.”

News of the meeting comes after Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Florida yesterday. During the meeting, the president alluded to direct talks with the North Korean government at “extremely high levels.”

The meeting between Pompeo and Kim represents the highest level American contact with the North since 2000, when Jo Myong-rok, a senior military figure, traveled to Washington for a meeting with President Bill Clinton. Secretary of State Madeline Albright visited Pyongyang shortly afterwards.

Trump mentioned that several locations were being considered for upcoming meetings with Kim, but revealed little more, other than that negotiations were proceeding well, and Japan was an important partner in the talks.

“Japan and ourselves are locked and very unified on the subject of North Korea,” said Trump. “Depending on various meetings and conversations, we’ll be having meetings with Kim Jong Un very soon. Assuming things go well.”

There is no definite time set for a Trump-Kim summit yet, but Trump said on Tuesday that it would probably take place “in early June or a little before that.”

Kim is due to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-In next week, for peace talks at the neutral village of Panmunjom on the heavily militarized border between the two countries. In Florida, Trump hinted that he had some role in bringing the two countries to the historic point they are at today.

“They are discussing an end to the war. Subject to a deal, they would certainly have my blessing and they do have my blessing to discuss that,” he said. “Without us – and without me, in particular – I guess you would have to say that they wouldn’t be discussing anything.”

De-nuclearization is expected to be high on the agenda when Trump meets Kim. Washington will be keen to reassure Pyongyang that removing Kim from power is not the objective. During his confirmation hearing last week, Pompeo was coy on North Korea.

SOURCE RT

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