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It would appear that there has already been a high-level meeting between US officials and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, according to reports in the US media today.

CIA director Mike Pompeo, the current candidate for Secretary of State, travelled to Pyongyang for a secret meeting with the North Korean leader over the Easter weekend apparently, with the direct blessing of US President Donald Trump.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump CIA Director Pompeo reportedly met with Kim Jong-Un covertly in North Korea over Easter weekend: <a href="https://t.co/go4xOLjsrW">https://t.co/go4xOLjsrW</a> <a href="https://t.co/7tlyVFkKQl">pic.twitter.com/7tlyVFkKQl</a></p>— Slate (@Slate) <a href="https://twitter.com/Slate/status/986427783114035200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2018</a></blockquote>

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This would then mark the highest level US contact with North Korea since 2000.

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Mr Trump himself broke the news when he hinted such a meeting had already taken place when informing reporters from Mar-A-Lago, where he is hosting Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, that NOKO-US Meetings had in fact already happened. Mr Trump said: "We have had direct talks at… extremely high levels."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Breaking —> CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a top-secret trip to North Korea over Easter and met with Kim Jong Un. A Wash Post exclusive <a href="https://t.co/JqkjRnvz8E">https://t.co/JqkjRnvz8E</a></p>— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/986393787982405635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2018</a></blockquote>

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“I really believe there’s a lot of goodwill. We’ll see what happens, as I always say. Because ultimately it’s the end result that counts.”

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Mr Pompeo's secret trip was thus the highest level meeting any North Korean leader has had with a US official of the highest order since 2000 when then-Secretary of State Ms Madeleine Albright, working for the Clinton administration, met Mr Kim Jong-il, the father of the current leader, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🥊AMERICAN BAD ASS🥊<br>CIA Director Pompeo met with <br>North Korean leader "Kim Jong Un "<br>over Easter weekend<br>🇺🇸<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MAGA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MAGA</a> 🇰🇵<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthKorea?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NorthKorea</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hannity?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hannity</a> <a href="https://t.co/q1mGq0Ppyv">pic.twitter.com/q1mGq0Ppyv</a></p>— 🇺🇸 Miguelifornia (@michaelbeatty3) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelbeatty3/status/986406998685003777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2018</a></blockquote>

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During his confirmation hearing, when asked about the US relationship with North Korea, Mr Pompeo had said: “Just to be clear, my role as a diplomat is to make sure that we never get to a place where we have to confront the difficult situation in Korea that this country has been head for now for a couple of decades.”

Source:

http://thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/383662-pompeo-met-with-kim-jong-un-report