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Pompeo meets North Korean official in push to rescue nuclear summit

NEW YORK - Let's call it microwave diplomacy.

In what is likely to be a feverish 24 hours of negotiations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is trying to hash out enough of a denuclearization agreement to allow President Donald Trump to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un in less than two weeks.

The proposed venue and date are clear - June 12 in Singapore. Hotel rooms are tentatively booked. Planes are at the ready. Logistics teams are working out kinks. To the bemusement of late-night comedians, the commemorative coin for the Trump-Kim summit is already minted.

All that is missing is the deal: The North

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