"Chosun Ilbo" reported a screenshot on the 6th
"US Secretary of State Pompeo did not hand over the CD containing the song 'Rocket Man' to North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong-un. The US "Washington Post" quoted US State Department spokesperson Heather Nolt as saying on the 7th to refute the rumors.
Heeze Nault's remarks were made after Pompeo arrived in Tokyo on the 7th, and she told reporters that the only thing Pompeo left in Pyongyang was a handwritten letter from US President Trump to Kim Jong-un. "He left nothing but a letter."
Pompeo
So where did the rumors of sending CDs come about? This also starts from a report in South Korea's "Chosun Ilbo" on the 6th, which quoted Washington diplomatic sources as saying that Pompeo's visit to North Korea brought two things: one is Trump's handwritten letter, and the other is a CD containing the song "Rocket Man" sung by British singer Elton John.
Trump called Kim Jong-un a "rocket man" last year, referring to North Korea's multiple missile tests.
(Screenshot of the Washington Post report)
The Chosun Ilbo report was widely disseminated, and the Washington Post analyzed that perhaps because it hinted at the light side of the U.S.-North Korea denuclearization talks.
The Washington Post also said that in fact, the accompanying reporters who visited North Korea had asked Pompeo about the CD before, but Pompeo just smiled and did not confirm or deny the report.
Nauert also responded to Pompeo's failure to meet kim Jong-un, saying that Pompeo did not expect to see Kim Jong-un during his visit to North Korea, and that he spent most of his time meeting with his negotiator, Kim Young-chol, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. The talks between the two men were the first high-level talks between the DPRK and the United States since the DPRK-US leaders' meeting. However, it is worth mentioning that the two sides will talk about the result of the talks and say that the temperature difference is revealed. Before leaving Pyongyang, Pompeo told the media that the talks were "productive" and that "a lot of progress" had been made on some fronts. However, a spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on the same day that he expressed "regret" over the "attitude and position" shown by the Chinese and AMERICAN sides during the talks, accusing the US side of only unilaterally proposing "robber-like" denuclearization requirements to the DPRK side.