Pompeo to visit N. Korea for nuclear talks: Yonhap

By Lim Chang-won Posted : July 3, 2018, 07:43 Updated : July 3, 2018, 07:43

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to North Korea Thursday to meet with leader Kim Jong-un and continue negotiations on dismantling the regime's nuclear weapons program, the White House said.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Monday announced Pompeo's first visit to Pyongyang since last month's historic summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Pompeo will be in North Korea through Saturday "to continue consultations and implement the forward progress" made by the two leaders at their Singapore meeting, the State Department added in a statement. At a regular press briefing, Sanders said the top U.S. diplomat will meet with the North Korean leader and his "team."

"We are continuing to make progress. We had good meetings yesterday," she said, referring to Sunday's talks at the inter-Korean border between U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui.
(Yonhap)
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