State Department Mike Pompeo met Kim Yong Chol, a North Korean official with a bad reputation, on Wednesday. They had a lavish steak dinner served on State Department tableware in a Manhattan high-rise. The display of friendship is part of diplomatic efforts to save a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un due in less than two weeks. They are trying to hash out sharply differing ideas of denuclearizing North Korea. The meeting it remarkable as it is the Trump administration's first taste of the Kim regime unfiltered by mediators like South Korea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down for a steak dinner with an infamous North Korean official as part of a diplomatic frenzy dedicated to resurrecting the cancelled summit between Donald trump and Kim Jong Un. Pompeo met Kim Yong Chol, the vice chairman of North Korea's Party Central Committee and a former intelligence chief, for dinner in New York on Wednesday.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: What will probably happen with the North and South Korean peace treatySee Also:Michael Cohen and Trump claimed a 'minuscule' number of the documents reviewed in the lawyer's case as privileged — and experts are stunnedOne of Putin's biggest enemies got arrested in Spain, but nobody can explain whyTrump argues black Americans have been voting for Democrats 'for over a hundred years' but that's incorrectSEE ALSO: What we know about Kim Yong Chol
Mike Pompeo Ate Filet Mignon With A Hardline North Korean Official, And Tried To Save The Trump Peace Summit
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Thu, 05/31/2018 - 2:48am
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