CNN’s Will Ripley: Sources Say Kim Jong Un Feels Like the ‘Sheriff in Town’

‘Kim Jong-Un never met with a head of state’

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RIPLEY: "The details that we’re learning here in Seoul about that dinner in Pyongyang earlier this week are truly extraordinary. This is the first time we have ever really gotten this look at Kim Jong-un's personality. He was apparently relaxed. He cracked jokes. The bottles of alcohol kept coming. He talked about the fact that President Moon of South Korea will be able to sleep in now because he won't be launching so many missiles early in the morning. And just the fact that he's sitting with government officials for the first time ever from South Korea, just so confident, it clearly shows right now he feels he’s in the driver’s seat. One source of mine told me a few days ago that Kim Jong-un feels like he's the sheriff in town, calling the shots, and getting exactly what he wants here pushing this forward. Meanwhile, in China and Beijing, the government dodging CNN's questions overnight about whether they would be willing to host any summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un. They did play host to those six-party talks which fell apart about a decade ago."

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