Pompeo sees more U.S.-North Korea talks after Hanoi summit

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, March 1, 2019. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday he was hopeful the United States would send a delegation to North Korea in the coming weeks, after talks between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended with no agreement.

 

The leaders' second summit in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi collapsed last week without any agreement or immediate plan for a third meeting between them, or their delegations.

 

"I am hopeful, although I have no commitment yet, that we will be back at it, that I'll have a team in Pyongyang in the next couple weeks," Pompeo told the Iowa Farm Bureau.

 

"I'm continuing to work to find those places where there's a shared interest."

 

The two sides gave different reasons for the abrupt end in last week's talks about denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. Trump told reporters on Thursday that North Korea wanted all of the sanctions lifted in their entirety.

 

But North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong Ho disputed that claim during a midnight news conference, saying North Korea had asked only for a partial lifting of the sanctions in exchange for dismantling its main nuclear site at Yongbyon.

 

"We've been engaged in the fundamental proposition of trying to convince Chairman Kim, who is 35 years old, that the historic strategy which said that, absent nuclear weapons, North Korea will fall, that the government will fall, that it was their only way of achieving security for their country. And they trust that. They're confident that that will protect them," Pompeo said on Monday.

 

(Reporting by Makini Brice and David Brunnstrom in Washington; Additional reporting by Joyce Lee in SEOUL; Editing by Sandra Maler and Clarence Fernandez)

 

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pompeo just waiting to cast off from the ss trumptanic and replace Pat Roberts before soiling his reputation too much.

Fat Mike Pompous.....just what the world needed, a know-nothing blowhard.

The people dealing with Trump need to figure out a way to keep him out of the negotiations. He cannot negotiate a deal to save his life. He is a horrible negotiator. Send in some real talent. People who actually know stuff and read. 

The next Nth Korea summit is with Putin and Mr Kim.

After Mr Kim is debriefed and re indoctrinated by Mr XI.

Just another flop deal by Mr Trump.

Mr Kim has constantly stated he will never give up his nukes,

but Mr Trump blithely goes ahead anyway, still making the same platitudes in his irritating "presidential tone"

What a complete and utter dud. 

I saw this fat blob of shit being interviewed not too long ago. The news guy asked him very clearly "Will Mexico pay for the wall?" Pompeo replied, "The wall will be built." THREE TIMES they went through this, each time Pompeo's reply the same, with the nastiest, most condescending grin on his face. He's most definitely a Trump sycophant.

On 3/5/2019 at 3:15 PM, Pedrogaz said:

Fat Mike Pompous.....just what the world needed, a know-nothing blowhard.

Is he heavier than Trump?