WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday (Jun 18) he expects to meet with Kim Jong Un soon to flesh out details…
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday (Jun 18) he expects to meet with Kim Jong Un soon to flesh out details of the North Korean leader’s promise of nuclear disarmament.
As Washington’s top diplomat, Pompeo laid much of the groundwork for last week’s historic summit between Kim and President Donald Trump, and is now planning follow-up talks.
Addressing business leaders at the Detroit Economic Club, Pompeo said it was “hard to know” if and when the two heads of state would hold another summit to finalize a deal.
But more discreet diplomacy is continuing.
“There’s a lot of work between here and there. My team is already doing it. I’ll likely travel back before too terribly long,” Pompeo said.
“We still need to flesh out all the things that underlay the commitments that were made that day in Singapore.”
Before the Singapore summit, Pompeo had met twice with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, once secretly in his previous post as director of the CIA.
