The US CIA transferred North Korean intelligence from the Korean Peninsula to the East Asia Pacific region and separated it from China, ending Trump's KMC system.
The CIA moved North Korean intelligence from the Korean Peninsula to the East Asia Pacific region and separated it from China.
CIA Director William Burns announced the establishment of the China Mission Center (CMC) in a statement on the 7th, saying, "We will further strengthen our collective work against the most important geopolitical threa: the increasingly hostile Chinese government." ” he said.
The Voice of America (VOA) reported on the 7th that a US official said, "The Korea Mission Center will be absorbed into the East Asia Pacific Mission Center and the Iranian Mission Center will be absorbed into the Near East Mission Center."
The New York Times reported on the 7th that, citing a CIA official, "After examining CIA activities, it was concluded that it is best to analyze Iran and North Korea in a broader regional context."
In May 2017, at the beginning of the Republican Trump administration, the Korea Mission Center (KMC) started with 6 to 800 people, and a few months later, the Iran Mission Center started.
This reorganization of the CIA was led by CIA Director Pompeo, who made a secret visit to Pyongyang with Andrew Kim, director of the Korea Mission Center, immediately after becoming Secretary of State in 2018, laying the groundwork for the successful inter-Korean summit following North Korea-U.S. negotiations and President Moon Jae-in's driver mediator. It seems to be the end of a polished strategy.
"The CIA will continue to focus sharply on other important threats, such as an aggressive Russia and a provocative North Korea, a hostile Iran and the war on terror," CIA Director Burns said in a statement. Russia hinted at ties with Iran.
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, in her memoir, 'I'll take questions now,' published on the 5th, said that during the meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 30, 2019, "It was arbitrarily conducted at the last minute in the 'typical Trump White House way'" , I told reporters I would not meet Chairman Kim before departing for Korea from Japan, where the G20 summit was held.
On the morning of June 29, 2019, former President Trump announced his visit to South Korea on Twitter, saying, "If
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sees this while there, I will be able to meet him at the DMZ to shake hands and say hello." The KMC's role was revealed as the 'North Korea-US summit was held in 32 hours' in response to North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui's response that evening.
Former spokeswoman Grisham said during the Panmunjom meeting that the White House operations team and the Secret Service (SS) "caused complicated execution plans and security issues."
On the morning of June 30, just before the visit to Panmunjom, National Security Adviser Bolton left for Australia, after which Secretary of State Pompeo exercised full power.