Talks Between U.S. and North Korea 'Are in Good Hands,' Trump Says
Source: The New York Times
By Gardiner Harris
May 31, 2018
President Trump said on Thursday that a delegation of officials from North Korea is expected to deliver him a letter from their leader, Kim Jong-un, in an extraordinary meeting on Friday in Washington.
Mr. Trump told reporters it was not clear if the show of tenuous détente would be enough to strike a deal to meet for a summit in Singapore, which was set for June 12 before the president called it off last week. But the president said negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang “are in good hands.”
His comments came minutes after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began formal talks in New York with a senior North Korean official to potentially salvage the summit, which both sides hope will end decades of enmity and suspicion.
In an early-morning tweet, Mr. Pompeo outlined his message to Kim Yong-chol, the former North Korean intelligence chief and top nuclear arms negotiator who flew into New York on Wednesday on an Air China flight from Beijing.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/world/asia/trump-kim-korea-summit.html
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L'il Kimmie knows the U.S. may never again be this weak and stupid so he's going to get all he can while the gettin' is easy.
