South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem continued to duck questions regarding a fabricated meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
Noem hedged: “No, I have specifically worked on policy for 30 years. And over that time I have traveled around the world and I have met with leaders around the world. And that anecdote — I’ve asked them to change the content.”
“At the request of Governor Noem, we are removing a passage regarding Kim Jong Un from her book No Going Back, upon reprint of the print edition and as soon as technically possible on the audio and ebook editions,” the publisher wrote in an announcement on social media. which obtained a copy of the book, Noem claims that as a member of Congress, she met Kim Jong Un.
“Well, as soon as this was brought to my attention, I certainly made some changes and looked at this passage, and I’ve met with many, many world leaders,” she said. “I’m not going to talk about my specific meetings with world leaders, I’m just not going to do that. This anecdote shouldn’t have been in the book, and as soon as it was brought to my attention, I made sure that that was adjusted.”
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