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CIA Director Pompeo met with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un over Easter weekend
WAPO ^ | 4/17/2018 | Shane Harris, Carol D. Leonnig, Greg Jaffe and David Nakamura

Posted on 04/17/2018 6:33:36 PM PDT by bitt

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; kimjongun; korea; maga; mikepompeo; pompeo; pyongyang; republicofkorea; trumpasia
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To: bitt

The establishment and leftists who think they are revolutionaries all hate Trump so much he will get no credit from the media or peace activists.

None.

It will be ignored and downplayed.


21 posted on 04/17/2018 7:06:25 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: bitt

This is not what the Chinese Communists want.


22 posted on 04/17/2018 7:07:53 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Rio

Maybe Trump wanted it leaked.


23 posted on 04/17/2018 7:07:59 PM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: bitt
When Kim Jong Un sits around the peace table, he really sits around the peace table!
24 posted on 04/17/2018 7:08:32 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: bitt

It later emerged that on Obama's just TENTH DAY IN OFFICE, the Nobel Committee came to their decision to award Obama the Nobel.

Ridiculous, huh...?

So I think there really should be NO QUESTION AT ALL that Trump get one.

25 posted on 04/17/2018 7:08:35 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Pravious

“Not as long as we have an Attorney General who has no idea or no desire to do his job.

Doing his job would be haaarrd. It’s much more fun to sit under his desk and play with his Barbies and let his boss, Rosenstein, make the decisions and give orders.


26 posted on 04/17/2018 7:10:49 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: bitt

“according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the highly classified nature of the talks”

Loose lips, sinks ships. I get it, POTUS announce a possible meeting, but this still a leak.


27 posted on 04/17/2018 7:10:58 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: bitt

>CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a top-secret visit to North Korea over Easter weekend<

If it’s “top-secret” why is the WaPo talking about it?


28 posted on 04/17/2018 7:11:09 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: plain talk
then NK takes over SK

That's a given. But no messy fighting will be needed. The south will eventually vote to let NK take over.

29 posted on 04/17/2018 7:11:18 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: doug from upland

“Maybe Trump wanted it leaked.”

That is a possibility. President Trump did not deny it when asked and the way he acted and commented I think the story is true.


30 posted on 04/17/2018 7:14:29 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: morphing libertarian
Leaked insider video of the top media stooges having a heated exchange about why everything backfires in their faces.


31 posted on 04/17/2018 7:23:50 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: edie1960

Hang them from lamp poles would be fine with me.

I am sick of the backstabbing, treasonous acts and lies - lies and more damn lies.


32 posted on 04/17/2018 7:39:39 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: JME_FAN

But . . But . . STORMY!!!


33 posted on 04/17/2018 7:44:09 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: PROCON

I think there would be some token-reduction of US troops in South Korea (37,000 presently). Wouldn’t surprise me if they announced 3,000 gone within 90 days after the treaty. Course, they’d probably just remove them to Alaska.

Long-term, if Kim would show some behavioral changes and be less aggressive, I could see half the US troops there gone in three years.


34 posted on 04/17/2018 7:44:22 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: MNDude

The sh*t fingered Midas literally left the entire world in worse shape than when he entered office. So glad he’s gone.


35 posted on 04/17/2018 7:54:24 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: miliantnutcase

Most likely this is just the Chicoms trying to slow roll MAGA. POTUS is unlikely to go all out on trade with a deal on NK seemingly so close.


36 posted on 04/17/2018 7:54:40 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: bitt
The extraordinary meeting between one of Trump’s most trusted emissaries and the authoritarian head of a rogue state

"Extraordinary"? Um, you mean like this?

#FakeNews

37 posted on 04/17/2018 7:58:14 PM PDT by montag813
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To: pepsionice
Just curious, how many troops still in Germany?

It seems when I was there in the '70's there were 200,000+.

38 posted on 04/17/2018 8:03:39 PM PDT by PROCON (Repeal the Gun-Free School Zone Act, Protect Our Children!)
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To: PROCON

And deny our soldiers the best chance to visit other countries and have world life experiences? I believe for all the young military personnel that have a chance to station over seas, it is a real learning life experience. Great way to grow up fast and learn about life.


39 posted on 04/17/2018 8:06:47 PM PDT by Tamatoa (Fight for our America, Fight for our Country I fought to defend!!!)
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To: bitt

CIA director?


40 posted on 04/17/2018 8:16:43 PM PDT by TruthWillWin ([MSM])
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