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 by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) April 1, 2019
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced hope that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump will meet again "in the coming months" and make significant headway on ending Pyongyang's nuclear program. In an interview broadcast Monday, the top US diplomat cautioned it was difficult to know the timing of a third US-North Korea summit but said: "It's in America's best interest to resolve this as quickly as we can." "I would hope in the coming months our two leaders will be back together ... in a way that we can achieve a substantive first step or a substantive big step along the path to denuclearization," he told radio station WHP 580 in Pennsylvania's capital Harrisburg. "Then the final, fully denuclearized North Korean peninsula can be realized, at which time, as President Trump said, there'll be a brighter future for the North Korean people. It's just hard to know what the timing will be," he said. Trump and Kim met for the first time in June 2018, a landmark first summit between the two countries that never formally ended the 1950-53 Korean War. A follow-up summit in February in Hanoi abruptly ended early, with Trump heeding his aides and refusing to lift sanctions until North Korea takes significant steps to denuclearize. Trump, however, has said that he still is fond of North Korea's authoritarian young leader and recently intervened to stop the imposition of tighter US sanctions.
N. Korea activity incompatible with denuclearization: US Washington (AFP) March 27, 2019 North Korean military activities are incompatible with denuclearization, which the United States is demanding as a condition for lifting sanctions, the commander of US forces in South Korea said Wednesday. "Despite a reduction in tensions along the demilitarized zone and a cessation of strategic provocations coupled with public statements of intent to denuclearize, little to no verifiable change has occurred to North Korea's military capabilities," General Robert Abrams testified to lawmakers. " ... read more
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