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Source: The Guardian and agencies
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 Pyongyangs nuclear negotiations with Washington had been executed.
Weve seen the reporting to which you are referring, the US secretary of state told a news conference in Berlin in answer to a question. Were doing our best to check it out. I dont have anything else to add to that today.
Earlier on Friday, a South Korean newspaper reported that Kim Hyok-chol, the Norths 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 Koreas Chosun Ilbo newspaper claimed Kim and foreign ministry officials who conducted working-level preparations for Februarys doomed Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi were killed in March.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/31/north-korea-executes-envoy-to-us-after-trump-summit-failures
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)that the author of such wonderful love letters to Trump could be so cruel.
Sneederbunk
(14,275 posts)Chin music
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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
(14,113 posts)Fourth of July Emperor's Military Parade, while they both get drunk on Budweiser and puke and defecate on the US Constitution.