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Labour MP reveals he met North Korean dictator in bizarre conference encounter 35 years BEFORE historic Trump summit
John Mann spoke to Kim Jong-il when he saw no one else was chatting to the leader
LABOUR MP John Mann last night revealed he's met former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il - in a bizarre echo of Donald Trump's historic summit last week.
Appearing on the BBC’s Question Time, Mr Mann said that he once met the dictator at a conference in 1983.
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As the audience laughed, stunned host David Dimbleby asked: “How did you meet him?”
“No one was talking to me and no one was talking to him,” Mr Mann explained, “so I went and had a word with him.
“This was before he was leader – when he was the heir apparent for half of his life”.
Speaking to The Sun today, Mr Mann added: "He was the heir apparent then and was with two bodyguards.
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"I think my greeting was rather lost as he had no translator, though whether ‘eh up me duck’ fully translates into Korean I am not so sure”.
“If I knew then what I know now, I would have invited him to the Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the football – an opportunity missed!”
Kim Jong-il was the leader of North Korea from 1994 until his death in 2011, and is father to the current dictator Kim Jong-un, who met with Donald Trump earlier this week.
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During the historic meeting in Singapore, Kim Jong-un agreed to “work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula”.
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Mr Mann called the rogue state’s leadership a “strange family” of “strange people”.
One Twitter user commented on the peculiar meeting: “John Mann and Kim Jong-il were once so unpopular they only had each other to talk to!”
A spokesman for the North Korean Embassy said that he was not in a position to comment.
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