[EN.YNA.CO.KR] U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo agreed Tuesday with the characterization of North Korean leader Kim PudgeJong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
as a "tyrant."
Pompeo was asked at a Senate hearing whether he would use the same word he has used for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
for Kim.
"Sure. I'm sure I've said that," the top U.S. diplomat said before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee while discussing the State Department budget request for 2020.
Pompeo's remarks come as the Trump administration has appeared to take care not to offend the North Korean leader during delicate negotiations to dismantle the regime's nuclear weapons program.
President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's second summit with Kim in Vietnam in February collapsed without a deal, leaving the process in a state of limbo.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is due to meet with Trump at the White House on Thursday to try to infuse momentum into the talks.