Pompeo to meet North Korean official in New York on Thursday
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Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol, a senior aide to the North Korean leader, will “discuss making progress on all four pillars of the Singapore Summit joint statement, including achieving the final, fully verified denuclearization” of North Korea, the State Department said in a statement on Monday.
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| Pompeo to meet North Korean official in New York on Thursday |
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Singapore in June, the first summit between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader.
At that meeting, Kim Jong Un, who is seeking relief from tough U.S.-led sanctions, committed to work toward denuclearization, but his steps so far have fallen short of U.S. demands for irreversible moves to abandon a weapons program that potentially threatens the United States.
On Friday, North Korea warned it could resume development of its nuclear program if the United States did not drop its sanctions campaign.
In Singapore, Kim and Trump also committed to building “a lasting and stable peace regime,” but Pyongyang has been disappointed by U.S. reluctance to agree an formal end to the 1950-53 Korean War before North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons.
