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Kim Jong Un snubbed Mike Pompeo for potato farm visit, state media suggests
Sky News ^ | July 10, 2018 | Alix Culbertson

Posted on 07/10/2018 8:23:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Kim Jong Un put potatoes ahead of Mike Pompeo during a US visit to agree denuclearisation details, state media has suggested.

The US secretary of state visited Pyongyang on Friday and Saturday in an attempt to agree details of a deal made during June's historic summit between Donald Trump and the North Korean dictator.

However Mr Kim has not been seen in public for seven days, with every official move usually documented by news agency KCNA.

During Mr Pompeo's trip relations between the US and North Korea appeared to take a dive as Pyongyang accused the US of a "gangster-like mindset" during the high-level negotiations...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: farming; kimjongun; korea; mikepompeo; northkorea; pompeo; potato; potatoes
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Another nickname from Trump; Tater Tot.
1 posted on 07/10/2018 8:23:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fake news. There are no potatoes in North Korea.


2 posted on 07/10/2018 8:25:14 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dick Tater.


3 posted on 07/10/2018 8:26:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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4 posted on 07/10/2018 8:27:21 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: UnwashedPeasant

They have potatoes.

The really cool thing about them is that they glow green in the dark.


5 posted on 07/10/2018 8:30:15 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

North Korea is still playing games. We tried the carrot but the stick will soon have to be applied. But probably not until after the Fall elections.


6 posted on 07/10/2018 8:30:24 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: UnwashedPeasant

In North Korea, the cultivation of potatoes is important to the livelihood of the country’s people. The crop was introduced into the country in the early 1800s.[1] After the 1990s famine, a potato revolution has taken place. Over ten years, the area of potato cultivation in North Korea has quadrupled to 200,000 ha and per capita consumption has increased from 16 to 60 kilograms (35 to 132 lb) per year.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_production_in_North_Korea


7 posted on 07/10/2018 8:30:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he hasn’t been seen in 7 days. Maybe he is not alive anymore...


8 posted on 07/10/2018 8:30:38 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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Take an old cold tater and wait.


9 posted on 07/10/2018 8:31:17 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Maybe they spell it potatos.


10 posted on 07/10/2018 8:34:41 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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"The really cool thing about them is that they glow green in the dark."

But still better than tree bark.

11 posted on 07/10/2018 8:35:27 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Irish of the Orient. I said that in 1979.


12 posted on 07/10/2018 8:37:14 PM PDT by the_daug
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Drinking-wise they sure are. Or maybe the Irish are the Koreans of the Atlantic?


13 posted on 07/10/2018 8:40:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: CJ Wolf

Metaphor for him fertilizing the potatoes.


14 posted on 07/10/2018 8:41:30 PM PDT by mindburglar (I missed my flight...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NK is an Idiocracy.


15 posted on 07/10/2018 8:54:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They go to fist city pretty easy too.


16 posted on 07/10/2018 8:58:15 PM PDT by the_daug
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You ever watch that show "Intervention?" I see it as that. NK is the drug addict or drunk who starts getting pissed when he sees his whole family there begging for him to get help, and right then and there he realizes he just gotta have that last drink or drug high and runs away.

Well, Trump never said he promised peace. He is showing NK the door, but like Neo from the Matrix he can't make them walk through it.

17 posted on 07/10/2018 9:03:03 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are Asian and need to save face. The fact that they are pretending to show disrespect to Pence and not Trump, tells me that they respect Trump and he has a chance to make a change with this country.


18 posted on 07/10/2018 9:04:17 PM PDT by ProudGOP
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Pompeo has been given the role of a diplomat but he isn’t a diplomat. Trump is a diplomat. A great diplomat and a ‘people person’ like he likes to say. That’s why Trump gets results and goodwill where others dont.


19 posted on 07/10/2018 9:04:27 PM PDT by libh8er
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End talks, go back to playing sanction hardball till N.K. implodes....


20 posted on 07/10/2018 9:09:14 PM PDT by cranked
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