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Swordsmyth
09-21-2018, 11:23 PM
The Trump administration is working on a second summit between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“There’s still a little bit of work to do left to make sure that the conditions are right and that the two leaders are put in the position where we could make substantial progress,” Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News.
“I’m hoping I’ll be back in Pyongyang before too long to make some more progress. And if that’s the case, I’m very hopeful that Chairman Kim and President Trump will get a chance to meet in the near future as well.”

More at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/21/pompeo-trump-may-hold-2nd-meeting-with-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-in-near-future.html

Swordsmyth
09-29-2018, 10:19 PM
Given the Trump administration's goal of a complete, verifiable denuclearization of North Korea during President Trump's first term (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kim-jong-un-north-korea-denuclearization-by-end-trump-term-south-korea-says/), Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is eager to maintain U.S.-North Korean engagement. As he prepares for upcoming discussions with the North Koreans (https://www.cbsnews.com/feature/north-korea-tensions/), he is leaving one tool conspicuously on the table: the prospect of an official declaration to end the Korean War."It's hard to know. I don't want to prejudge precisely where we'll end up," Pompeo said this week when asked if President Trump and Kim Jong Un could sign a declaration to end the war at their next summit. "But make no mistake about it, there is real progress being made."
By leaving open the possibility, Pompeo is affirming that the U.S. is open to some form of negotiation with the North Koreans to achieve denuclearization -- and he's showing up armed with more than just demands. The Trump administration, which argues its efforts have averted war, insists it will press forward with the conversations with North Korea after a late summer stall in the dialogue.
Mr. Trump has said his next meeting with Kim will happen "in the not too distant future," at a "location to be determined" -- but not Singapore.
Until there is "final, full-verified" denuclearization, Pompeo says crippling U.S. sanctions against North Korea will remain in place, but the U.S. is using the prospect of a potential end of war declaration to keep the North Koreans at the table.
"The declaration to end the war is inevitable," says David Maxwell, a senior fellow the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who previously served in the US army in Japan and South Korea. He argues that both North and South Korea want it, and they can initiate it on their own. "We have to figure out how to make that a positive event so that the U.S. can use that to the advantage to strengthen the U.S.-South Korea alliance and to continue to push North Korea towards continuing to denuclearize."

Kim Jong Un, according to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, said during their last meeting that North Korea would dismantle a major nuclear facility if the U.S. takes unspecified, "corresponding" measures. A formal end to the war is one measure the North Korean regime definitely wants.

More at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-korea-pompeo-denuclearization-donald-trump-korean-war-kim-jong-un/

goldenequity
09-30-2018, 04:58 AM
AFP news agency
"We fell in love!" - US President Donald Trump says he and North Korea's Kim Jong Un have fallen "in love" –- their bromance fueled by "beautiful letters"
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North Korea Says It Will Disarm Only When U.S. Regains Its Trust
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/north-korea-says-it-will-disarm-only-when-u-s-regains-its-trust-1538253940
Foreign minister tells U.N. General Assembly that talks between two nations are deadlocked

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Swordsmyth
10-02-2018, 07:01 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to North Korea to meet with Chairman Kim Jong-un on Sunday in preparation for a second denuclearization summit between President Donald Trump and the Asian country’s dictator, a Department of State spokesperson said Tuesday. “These conversations are going in the right direction, and we feel confident enough to hop a plane to head there to continue the conversations,” Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman for DOS, told (https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/index.htm) reporters.
The spokeswoman noted that negotiations to convince Kim to take credible steps towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in exchange for relief from international sanctions are ongoing, adding:

I think it shows forward progress and momentum that the secretary is making his fourth trip back in less than a year. The first of course was as CIA director. This will be his third as secretary of state, and that shows the president’s commitment to the agreement that he and Chairman Kim came to at the Singapore Summit [in June]. The secretary going on for follow-on conversations. As we often say, the conversations continue. Of course we have quite a ways to go but we look forward to the next steps in this conversation.
Nauert said that Pompeo remains “hopeful” that the Trump administration’s goal of a complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula might be achieved (https://www.breitbart.com/news/pompeo-sets-goal-for-complete-denuclearization-in-north-korea-by-2021/) by January 2021.

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/10/02/state-secretary-pompeo-traveling-to-north-korea-sunday-to-meet-kim/