US checking reports North Korea executed envoy, says Pompeo

[Eugene]

LBN thread: North Korea Envoy Executed Over Trump-Kim Summit, Chosun Reports

______________________________________________________________________

Source: The Guardian and agencies

US checking reports North Korea executed envoy, says Pompeo

South Korean paper claims Kim Hyok-chol has been killed and a negotiator put in forced labour

Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies
Fri 31 May 2019 13.00 BST First published on Fri 31 May 2019 00.39 BST

Mike Pompeo has said the US is attempting to check reports that a senior North Korean official involved in Pyongyang’s nuclear negotiations with Washington had been executed.

“We’ve seen the reporting to which you are referring,” the US secretary of state told a news conference in Berlin in answer to a question. “We’re doing our best to check it out. I don’t have anything else to add to that today.”

Earlier on Friday, a South Korean newspaper reported that Kim Hyok-chol, the North’s special envoy to the US, had been executed over the failure of the recent summit between the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and Donald Trump.

South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper claimed Kim and foreign ministry officials who conducted working-level preparations for February’s doomed Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi were killed in March.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/31/north-korea-executes-envoy-to-us-after-trump-summit-failures

[Pantagruel]

1. Pompeo is stunned

that the author of such wonderful love letters to Trump could be so cruel.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Come on, would Dotard's lover actually do that?

[Chin music]

3. "I believe Kim will keep his promise to me." "These are small range missiles. " Nothing to see here.

Last edited Fri May 31, 2019, 02:21 PM - Edit history (1)

Sounds like Kim is tired of others speaking for him....like trump. There's not much of a bigger message, than killing the US negotiator envoy. (I think they're at an impassee?) Or is this the tonkin event?
Thought Pompeo had this all under control? No worries, the State Dept rank and file will step in, oh, I forgot, there are no true State Dept officials working on the issue much anymore. (Post Tillerson)
Wonder if we will have drills w S Korea this year?

[magicarpet]

4. trDump could invite Kim Jing Jong Jung to the Washington DC ...

Fourth of July Emperor's Military Parade, while they both get drunk on Budweiser and puke and defecate on the US Constitution.