Pompeo to meet Kim Jong Un on Sunday, announces the State Department
Pompeo to meet Kim Jong Un on Sunday, announces the State Department
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Sunday as part of his trip to Asia starting this week, the State Department announced on Tuesday.
Pompeo will also visit Japan, South Korea and China as part of his trip, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert announced.
Pompeo is expected to try to establish a second summit between Kim and President Trump, who personally met in Singapore last June and issued a vague statement in which he pledged to eliminate nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula.
Since then, negotiations on when and how denuclearization would take place have been complicated, since neither side can agree on a starting point and widespread skepticism in the United States about whether Pyongyang is serious about giving up an arsenal that he sees as the only way to guarantee his safety
The hopes for progress in the talks received a boost last month when South Korean President Moon Jae In met with Kim in Pyongyang for his third summit.
The summit resulted in a joint statement in which North Korea expressed its willingness to "permanently" dismantle its main nuclear facility in Nyongbyon, if the United States takes appropriate measures, and the dismantling of an engine test site. missiles and a launch pad in the northwest northwest. Korea.
On Tuesday, the official propaganda ministry of North Korea accused the United States of "trying to subdue" it through sanctions, which indicates that the Kim regime could see the lifting of such sanctions as a key piece in the negotiations on the future of North Korea's nuclear program. Pompeo has been a vocal advocate of maintaining maximum pressure and sanctions in North Korea until he has made clear and meaningful movements to denuclearize.
In a speech at the United Nations last week, the North Korean Foreign Minister said North Korea is ready to implement the agreements that Trump and Kim made at the Singapore summit, but also accused Washington of not showing their willingness to relieve tensions and foster mutual trust.
"Without any confidence in the United States, there will be no confidence in our national security," said Ri Yong Ho, "and in such circumstances there is no way to disarm unilaterally first."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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