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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat the heck is going on with Pompeo meeting with North Korea??
He's not the secretary of state yet!
Takket
(21,575 posts)Congress should raise hell! not that they will
onenote
(42,714 posts)so even we had a secretary of state, it wouldn't be unprecedented to send someone else. Kissinger did the pre-visits with China before Nixon's meeting and Kissinger was National Security Advisor at the time, not Secretary of State.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)Because we don't have diplomatic relations with them -- or a secretary of state -- we use other channels, such as Clapper under Obama. We've done this with other countries as well. It's a little unusual, but only because everything with North Korea is unusual.
triron
(22,006 posts)sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)Tillerson was fired the 31st and this meeting happened that day or the next, Easter Weekend.
triron
(22,006 posts)So, in name only.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)He DELIGHTS in thumbing his nose at mere convention, as well as laws.
caraher
(6,278 posts)But yeah, with this crew, there's no such thing as rules or protocol, just a lot of "winging it."