Alwaght- US spy chief Mike Pompeo has reportedly visited North Korean leader over Easter weekend as an envoy for President Trump to meet with that country’s leader Kim Jong Un in the east Asian Country's capital Pyongyang.
The extraordinary meeting between one of Trump’s most trusted emissaries and the authoritarian head of a rogue state was held more than two weeks ago as 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 Washington Post citing two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
A spokesman for the South Korean President's office said it was "inappropriate" for the government to comment on Pompeo's visit.
The alleged mission, which has not previously been reported, came soon after Pompeo was nominated to be secretary of state.
"I’m optimistic that the United States government can set the conditions for that appropriately so that the president and the North Korean leader can have that conversation [that] will set us down the course of achieving a diplomatic outcome that America so desperately — America and the world so desperately need,” Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week during his confirmation hearing.
Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday, Trump appeared to allude to the extraordinary face-to-face meeting between Kim and Pompeo when he said the United States has had direct talks with North Korea “at very high levels.” The president didn’t elaborate.
Trump said that he would sit down with Kim probably in early June, if not sooner.
