It would appear that since Trump cancelled the N. Korean summit, things between the Trump administration and Kim Jong Un’s regime are going so well that a member of Kim’s regime is being allowed to come to the US and meet with Secretary of State Pompeo:
NY POST – The highest-ranking North Korean emissary to meet with a United States official in nearly two decades was heading to New York City on Wednesday for a confab with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a landmark summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un hangs in the balance.
Kim Yong Chol, a top aide to Kim and the regime’s former spy chief, left Beijing on Wednesday with his five-member entourage heading for New York, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
Pompeo is expected to meet with Trump at the White House Wednesday afternoon and then head north to rendezvous with Kim Yong Chol to discuss the June 12 summit in Singapore, the State Department said. He returns to Washington on Thursday.
The State Department would not release any details on the meeting or where it would happen.
But a federal source said the two would get together at the United Nations or a UN facility in the city.
The two countries do not have a diplomatic relationship and North Korea only has a mission in New York for its delegation to the UN.
Kim Yong Chol, the vice chairman of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party Central Committee, could remain in touch with Pyongyang through the mission while on the ground in the Big Apple.
It will be the third meeting between Pompeo, who headed up the CIA before becoming secretary of state, and Kim Yong Chol since April.
There’s a lot of speculation that this summit on the 12th may happen after all. I, of course, still have my doubts that it will lead to anything significant, but we’ll find out soon enough.