Kim Jong-un is not a weak leader and he has shown tremendous capacity to lead North Korea, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the only top US official to have met the reclusive leader twice in recent weeks.
Pompeo’s statement came after US President Donald Trump cancelled his proposed summit meeting with Kim on June 12 in Singapore.
Trump described the cancellation of the summit as “a tremendous setback” for North Korea and warned that the US military is ready to act should Pyongyang take any “foolish and reckless” action.
Pompeo first travelled to North Korea in his capacity as the CIA Director last month and again this month as the Secretary of State.
Both the meetings, he said, laid the ground work for a meeting between Kim and US President Donald Trump.
“I spoke in English. There was a translator. But our team confirmed that the translator said what I said.