US secretary of state to meet North Korea’s Kim Sunday
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next week on October 7.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert made the announcement about the Pyongyang meeting on Tuesday.
“@statedeptspox announces @SecPompeo’s upcoming trip to Asia, where he will travel to #Japan, #NorthKorea, #ROK, and #China from October 6-8, read a tweet by the US Department of State.
.@statedeptspox announces @SecPompeo’s upcoming trip to Asia, where he will travel to #Japan, #NorthKorea, #ROK, and #China from October 6-8. pic.twitter.com/hnB2xAIME7
— Department of State (@StateDept) October 2, 2018
The are expected to discuss a second summit between the North Korean leader and US President Donald Trump.
“It shows forward progress and momentum that the Secretary is making his fourth trip back in less than a year,” Nauert said. “That shows the president’s commitment to agreement that he and Chairman Kim made at the Singapore summit.”
Pompeo visit will follow an invitation by North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York.
In a Saturday speech at the annual UN meeting Ri noted that “without any trust in the U.S. there will be no confidence in our national security and under such circumstances there is no way we will unilaterally disarm ourselves first.”
The US has been engaged in diplomacy with Pyongyang after a summit between Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un in June, but with little progress.
Amid escalating tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, Trump recently, made an unexpected decision to meet with Kim.
The Trump-Kim summit mark the first such meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader in history.
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