US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Washington on Thursday bound for Pyongyang and his latest round of talks with Kim Jong Un on North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.
Pompeo and senior aides flew out of Washington early Thursday and were due on Friday in the North Korean capital, where Pompeo will spend a day and a half on his third trip to the country this year, and his first since the unprecedented summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12.
President Donald Trump met Kim at a historic summit in Singapore last month and the US leader has been bullish about hopes for peace, boasting that the threat of nuclear war is over.
But U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there had been no sign of a breakthrough, and little progress toward even defining the key terms of any agreement. What has been seen instead is an apparent softening in the Trump administrationās approach, in spite of what U.S. officials say are intelligence assessments saying that North Korea is continuing to deceive Washington about its weapons programs.
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