Posted on 05/31/2018 8:39:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo concluded talks with North Korean General Kim Yong Chol with a toast of Islay scotch and a lavish dinner of steak, corn and cheese, confirming the saying that the way to man's heart is through his stomach.
The top U.S. diplomat and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's right-hand man broke bread, and a few more things besides, at a luxury building complex on New York's East Side on Wednesday evening.
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Since time is of the essence, American officials have held preparatory meetings with North Korean delegations in both Singapore and the Demilitarized Zone, the border area separating North and South Korea, in the past few days. The meeting between Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol is particularly significant because of the degree of influence the North Korean general, a former intelligence official with a controversial history who is in charge of the regime's relations with South Korea, enjoys with the country's leader.
Establishing a good relationship with Kim Yong Chol, the highest-level North Korean official to visit the U.S. in 18 years, is key to ensuring smooth sailing at the summit. "That is how you do these things. You break bread with the person on the other side, you try to get to know them," the senior State Department official said.
The two also clinked glasses full of whisky, as a photo shared on Pompeo's official Twitter account showed, which Kim Yong Chol no doubt appreciated, as was described as a "heavy drinker" by one of the South Korean musicians who performed in Pyongyang in April....
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Meanwhile the people of North Korea eat dirt and have worms.
COLLUSION! COLLUSION! COLLUSION!
They have hollow legs...........................
Haha, sounds like Newsweak is expecting a condescending response from their god’s “wife” about the menu.
And Secretary Pompeo, by feeding and talking to this evil s#*+ is doing all he can to alleviate that for those 25 million poor souls. The route to a goal is not always obvious.
Hahaha! What show is that from?
Sounds like good American eatin’. Hope they topped if off with TWO scoops of ice cream. Not Ben and Jerrys.
Would be funny if the guy defects.
Steak, corn and cheese is a lavish dinner? Only in North Korea.
I can’t help but like Pompeo. And I pray this whole Korea thing works out. It’s hard not to wish the North Koreans well, poor bastards.
They literally run nazi style concentration camps. Negotiations are good, but I don’t like seeing them treated to nice things. Didn’t like seeing Albright drinking wine with them, don’t like seeing Norks treated to good food. No US taxpayer funded New York City steak dinner for someone starving people behind barbed wire at that very moment...period.
I remember old Trump saying to “give the Chinese leader a Big Mac and get down to work.”
Michael?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation
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That character in that gif is a rabid libertarian. The fact that he works as a stooge for the government is not lost on him.
Funny Show.
I don’t get the “cheese” part. What’s the big deal about cheese? And corn?! A steak, lobster, asparagus with hollandaise, shrimp wrapped in bacon. That’s what I’d expect at one of these dinners.
We wined and dined the Nazis, the Italian fascists, the Imperial Japanese, the Soviet Communists and many other reprehensible diplomats. That’s just the way things work.
What will Democrats say when Trump returns from Singapore with verifiable denuclearization and the end of the Korean War? Will it be sputtering indignation about the unseemliness of the process? Or will they credit Obama?
A and B I imagine.
Sometimes things that seem like routine to us are gourmet luxuries in places like North Korea, even for the elite.
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