“North Korea’s diplomacy has taken an unprecedented tactical course, which is tailor-made for Trump,” Thae Yong Ho, ex-North Korean deputy ambassador to Britain who defected in 2016, warned.
Kim Jong Un has been reorganizing his team of foreign diplomats and nuclear negotiators in a bid to manipulate President Donald Trump, a former North Korean diplomat, who defected in 2016, has warned.
“North Korea’s diplomacy has taken an unprecedented tactical course, which is tailor-made for Trump,” Thae Yong Ho, formerly North Korea’s deputy ambassador to Britain, said at a Tuesday news conference in Seoul, Reuters reported. Thae explained that North Korea’s leader Kim had appointed the little-known Kim Hyok Chol, a former ambassador to Spain, to lead discussions with the United States to try and “give the impression that there’s no one between them, so that Trump will talk to him and shut his ears to his own staff.”
President Donald Trump gestures as he meets with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un at the start of their historic U. S.-North Korea Summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12 SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Other North Korean diplomats have been pushed aside ahead of Kim’s second summit with Trump, according to South Korean experts and officials cited by the Reuters report. Trump and Kim plan to meet at the end of this month in Vietnam for a second round of face-to-face talks about denuclearization of the Asian nation. Since their historic summit in Singapore last year, which marked the first time a sitting American president met directly with a top North Korean leader, Trump has praised Kim repeatedly, voicing his belief that he will denuclearize.
