The White House on Thursday released photos of Mike Pompeo's meeting with Kim Jong-un.
Shortly after the US Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as the nation's secretary of state on Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took to Twitter and released two photos of him meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
"Great to have Secretary Pompeo confirmed. He will do an excellent job helping @POTUS lead our efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula," Sanders wrote while sharing the photos from Pompeo's previously confirmed Easter weekend trip to North Korea.
CNN notes that the photos "show the two unsmiling representatives of their country, both in dark suits, firmly gripping the other's hand in an ornate room in an undisclosed part of North Korea."
Days ago, President Trump weighed in on Pompeo's meeting.
"Meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed. Details of Summit are being worked out now. Denuclearization will be a great thing for World, but also for North Korea!" Trump tweeted on April 18.
According to the Washington Post, "The extraordinary meeting between one of Trump's most trusted emissaries and the authoritarian head of a rogue state was part of an effort to lay the groundwork for direct talks between Trump and Kim about North Korea's nuclear weapons program."
The two leaders are expected to meet in late May or early June.
