The Central Intelligence Agency reported that it has established negotiating channels between the United States and North Korea, which the State Department is now using to communicate with Pyongyang. Rex Tillerson, who was briefly dismissed as US Secretary of State by President Donald Trump last week, was famous for diplomatic negotiations between the United States and North Korea. The White House had resisted and even publicly criticized Tillerson's views. Ironically, Tillerson was fired just as his views on diplomacy over North Korea were adopted by the White House.
Now it is the task of the new American Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to help facilitate President Trump's desire to meet North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un. On Sunday, the American television network CBS reported that Pompeo had already established an informal negotiation channel with Pyongyang during his previous position as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. According to CBS, the CIA used the unofficial channel to communicate directly with the North Korean regime, bypassing the State Department, which is the traditional instrument of US foreign policy. The network cited "two current and one former" US officials, who did not nominate.
Now that Pompey has been put in charge of the State Department, CBS said, he has already tapped the CIA's direct communication line with Pyongyang, and started using it as Secretary of State. The CIA remains responsible for the channel, according to the television network. Meanwhile, the German media have said that North Korea's missiles could now reach Germany and other parts of Western Europe. The reports cited the dott. Ole Diehl, deputy director of the BND, the spy agency of Germany, which would have made the declaration at a closed-door meeting of the Bundestag, the German parliament.