March 13, 2018 – Trump announces Pompeo’s nomination to replace Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state.
April 18, 2018 – Trump announces via Twitter that Pompeo visited North Korea over Easter weekend and met with leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang.
April 26, 2018-
January 20, 2021 – Serves as the 70th US secretary of state.
May 7-10, 2018 – Pompeo heads back to Pyongyang to finalize the agenda for the upcoming summit between the United States and the Korean Peninsula. Three detained Americans Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk, also known as Tony Kim are freed and arrive back at Joint Base Andrews with Pompeo, where they are greeted by Trump and first lady Melania Trump on board the plane.
Mike Pompeo Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state and director of the CIA.
Personal
Birth place: Orange, California
Father: Wayne Pompeo, machinist
Children: with Susan Pompeo: Nicholas
Education: United States Military Academy, West Point, B.S., 1986; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1994
Military service: US Army, 1986-1991, Captain
Religion: Christian/ Presbyterian
Graduated first in his class at West Point Military Academy.
Timeline
1986-1989 – US Army officer in charge of patrolling the border between West Germany and East Germany and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War.
1994-1996 – Joins the Washington, DC law firm of Williams & Connolly as a tax litigator.
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Here's a look at the life of Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state and director of the CIA.PersonalBirth date: December 30, 1963Birth place: Orange,