US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made unspecified progress on Sunday toward an agreement for the North to give up its nuclear weapons. But there was no immediate indication whether Pompeo had managed to arrange much-anticipated summit between Kim and President Donald Trump.
Arriving in Seoul on his fourth visit to N Korea, Pompeo tweeted he had “good trip” and he and Kim “continue to make progress on agreements made at Singapore summit.” Trump and Kim held historic summit there in June resulted in a vague agreement for the North to denuclearise.
The top US diplomat offered no details, and upon landing in South Korea, he briefed White House national security adviser John Bolton and Trump chief of staff John Kelly on his trip, officials said.
Pompeo then met South Korea’s President, Moon Jae-in. Moon, who has met twice with Kim, asked Pompeo to make public as much information as he could about the trip.
“I dearly hope that your latest visit, as well as the upcoming US-North Korea summit, which I hope will be happening soon, will make an irreversible, decisive progress,” Moon said. “Since we have the media present here, I would like to ask you to disclose anything that you can open to the public here.”