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Melania, guess who's coming to visit?
A South Korean news program presented this as a possible "October surprise" scenario.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in an interview recorded by VOA, published on youtube on October 19, said that he expected to "...have senior (North Korean) leaders meeting us here in the next week and a half or so, between myself and my counterpart." Today, South Korean analysts from Channel A News Top Ten program have suggested that Pompeo's call for top level talks with North Korean representatives may result in a visit by Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, to the US before the scheduled US mid-term elections. The analysts speculated that such a meeting would be politically motivated and mostly form over substance serving political campaign needs for the Trump administration. Pompeo said that the meeting would focus on the time, date and place for the anticipated second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, which have not yet been settled upon. The need for the US administration according to these conservative South Korean analysts is to present an image of progress in the stalled negotiation process since the Singapore Summit, before the imminent US midterm elections.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/113322277
