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Mike Pompeo Enjoyed Dinner of Steak, Corn and Cheese With North Korea's Kim Yong Chol
Newsweek ^ | May 31, 2018 | Sofia Lotto Persio

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: cheese; diplomacy; korea; pompeo
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Diplomats keep the luxury food and beverage establishments going in most capitol cities. That's no secret. Oh, and don't ever get in a drinking contest with a Korean. I learned that the hard way 40 years ago.
1 posted on 05/31/2018 8:39:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Meanwhile the people of North Korea eat dirt and have worms.


2 posted on 05/31/2018 8:42:17 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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p20
3 posted on 05/31/2018 8:42:20 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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COLLUSION! COLLUSION! COLLUSION!


4 posted on 05/31/2018 8:44:14 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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They have hollow legs...........................


5 posted on 05/31/2018 8:45:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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Haha, sounds like Newsweak is expecting a condescending response from their god’s “wife” about the menu.


6 posted on 05/31/2018 8:45:24 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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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.


7 posted on 05/31/2018 8:45:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Hahaha! What show is that from?


8 posted on 05/31/2018 8:46:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Sounds like good American eatin’. Hope they topped if off with TWO scoops of ice cream. Not Ben and Jerrys.


9 posted on 05/31/2018 8:47:55 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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Would be funny if the guy defects.


10 posted on 05/31/2018 8:48:13 AM PDT by nikos1121
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Steak, corn and cheese is a lavish dinner? Only in North Korea.


11 posted on 05/31/2018 8:48:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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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.


12 posted on 05/31/2018 8:50:35 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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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.”

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/08/24/trump_chinas_president_xi_jinping_should_be_given_a_big_mac_instead_of_a_state_dinner.html


13 posted on 05/31/2018 8:51:44 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Michael?


14 posted on 05/31/2018 8:51:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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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.


15 posted on 05/31/2018 8:52:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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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.


16 posted on 05/31/2018 8:52:58 AM PDT by albie
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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.


17 posted on 05/31/2018 8:55:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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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?


18 posted on 05/31/2018 8:55:25 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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A and B I imagine.


19 posted on 05/31/2018 8:56:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Sometimes things that seem like routine to us are gourmet luxuries in places like North Korea, even for the elite.


20 posted on 05/31/2018 8:56:35 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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