KOREA ON HIS MIND: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is back in Washington after some brief and puzzling encounters with his North Korean counterpart at the annual conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore. It all started friendly enough with a handshake photo tweeted out by Pompeo on his official Twitter account

“I had the chance to speak with my #DPRK counterpart FM Ri Yong Ho @asean today. We had a quick, polite exchange. Our US delegation also had the opportunity to deliver @Potus reply to Chairman Kim’s letter,” Pompeo tweeted Saturday.