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From CBS News
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may have been too busy visiting a potato farm to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Pyongyang's state media implied Tuesday. The North's state media normally lead their television bulletins and front pages with Kim's doings, but a seven-day absence from the headlines, including during Pompeo's recent visit, had prompted speculation on his whereabouts among Korea-watchers.
The mystery was perhaps resolved Tuesday when the official news agency KCNA put out no fewer than four reports on Kim's trip to far-flung Samjiyon county, on the border with China, most of them far more detailed than its usual accounts of his "field guidance" visits.
At the Junghung potato farm, it said, he instructed staff not only to plant high-yield varieties but also to "introduce various species good to taste and ensure the quality of processed potato foods in production and thus raise the quality of potato production."
He praised officials of the county, which is close to Mount Paektu, the spiritual home of the Korean people and claimed by Pyongyang's propaganda to be the actual birthplace of his father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il.
COMMENT:-
Obviously "Fake News". The **R*E*A*L** reason why Mr. Kim didn't meet with Mr. Pompeo was that Mr. Kim was afraid to come out from under the bed he had been hiding beneath ever since Mr. Trump totally out negotiated him and got every single one of the DPRK's nuclear weapons and rockets destroyed (as well as having anyone in the DPRK who had even the faintest possibility of ever being capable of potentially learning enough to be suspected of having the theoretical ability to build new ones "removed").
PS - That isn't true. It's just that Mr. Kim was too polite to tell Mr. Pompeo that he was much too busy actually running a country to have time for self-serving publicity stunts like proclaiming "The danger to the DPRK posed by the American nuclear weapons is ended because I am such a consummate deal maker." or "I hold in my hand a piece of paper that means 'Peace In Our Time'.",
North Korea implies Kim Jong Un was at potato farm during Mike Pompeo's visit
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may have been too busy visiting a potato farm to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Pyongyang's state media implied Tuesday. The North's state media normally lead their television bulletins and front pages with Kim's doings, but a seven-day absence from the headlines, including during Pompeo's recent visit, had prompted speculation on his whereabouts among Korea-watchers.
The mystery was perhaps resolved Tuesday when the official news agency KCNA put out no fewer than four reports on Kim's trip to far-flung Samjiyon county, on the border with China, most of them far more detailed than its usual accounts of his "field guidance" visits.
At the Junghung potato farm, it said, he instructed staff not only to plant high-yield varieties but also to "introduce various species good to taste and ensure the quality of processed potato foods in production and thus raise the quality of potato production."
He praised officials of the county, which is close to Mount Paektu, the spiritual home of the Korean people and claimed by Pyongyang's propaganda to be the actual birthplace of his father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il.
COMMENT:-
Obviously "Fake News". The **R*E*A*L** reason why Mr. Kim didn't meet with Mr. Pompeo was that Mr. Kim was afraid to come out from under the bed he had been hiding beneath ever since Mr. Trump totally out negotiated him and got every single one of the DPRK's nuclear weapons and rockets destroyed (as well as having anyone in the DPRK who had even the faintest possibility of ever being capable of potentially learning enough to be suspected of having the theoretical ability to build new ones "removed").
PS - That isn't true. It's just that Mr. Kim was too polite to tell Mr. Pompeo that he was much too busy actually running a country to have time for self-serving publicity stunts like proclaiming "The danger to the DPRK posed by the American nuclear weapons is ended because I am such a consummate deal maker." or "I hold in my hand a piece of paper that means 'Peace In Our Time'.",
