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.
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.
"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.
During the historic meeting in Singapore, Kim Jong-un agreed to “work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula”.
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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