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Kim Jong-un's right-hand man reportedly on way to US for talks about Trump summit
The Telegraph ^ | May 29, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 05/28/2018 11:26:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former North Korea spy chief and senior official Kim Yong-chol is headed to US after stopping over in Beijing, presumably for talks with US officials regarding a possible summit between Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, and President Donald Trump, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said on Tuesday.

Kim Yong Chol has been closely involved with talks with South Korea as well and his visit to the United States would further indicate preparations for the historic summit are moving ahead.

American officials have been in North Korea and an advance team has travelled from Pyongyang to Singapore where the on-again off-again summit could still happen on June 12.

It marks the latest sign - amid a flurry of diplomatic moves - that the on-again off-again summit may still go head on June 12.

Trump withdrew from the planned summit with Kim last Thursday, citing hostile North Korean comments, but has since said the meeting in Singapore could still happen....

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kim; kimjongun; kimyongchol; korea; nkorea; northkorea; summit; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope he’s not flying here on Air Koryo.

His flight may never make it here.


21 posted on 05/30/2018 9:21:51 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: FreedomForce

I think you’re on to something there. Gorbachev thought he could do the same in the USSR with glasnost. Just tinker with the system a bit. Put curtains on the cell windows, tell the folks what a monster Stalin was(seeing how he was dead) and give the masses some extra smokes and vodka and you keep keep things going. Boy, was he ever wrong.


22 posted on 06/05/2018 1:40:18 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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