‘I’m still trying to kill you’: Mike Pompeo told Kim Jong Un during secret 2018 meeting – By Ryan King (Washington Examiner) / Jan 17, 2023
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un tried to break the ice with Mike Pompeo by joking about the then-CIA director’s efforts to “kill” him during an intense 2018 Easter weekend secret meeting.
Pompeo was taken aback by the quip and quickly assured the notorious dictator to his face with a “little humor” of his own that he was indeed trying to kill him. That move drew a smile from the dictator, according to Pompeo’s upcoming memoir, Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love.
“This small, sweating, evil man tried to break the ice with all the charm you would expect from a mass murderer. ‘Mr. Director,’ he opened, ‘I didn’t think you’d show up. I know you’ve been trying to kill me,’” an excerpt of the book obtained by Fox News recounted.
“I decided to lean in with a little humor of my own: ‘Mr. Chairman, I’m still trying [to] kill you.’ In the picture taken seconds after that exchange, Kim is still smiling. He seemed confident that I was kidding,” Pompeo added in his book.
CONTINUE > https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/mike-pompeo-told-kim-jong-un-kill-you
