The United States and its international partners are ready to provide North Korea with assurances if its leader Kim Jong-un is prepared to fully denuclearise the Korean Peninsula, a top American diplomat said on Saturday.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who returned from North Korea a day earlier after meeting with Kim, said he had a “good conversation” with the North Korean leader.
Talking to reporters at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the US State Department, he said
Donald Trump and the world have set the “conditions” for a successful outcome from the June 12 summit between the US President and Kim in Singapore.
Responding to a question about Kim’s personality, Pompeo said, “You asked about my conversations with Chairman Kim.
This question is sort of undignified. ‘Is he rational’IJ Yes, we had good conversations, substantive conversations, conversations that involve deep, complex problems, challenges the strategic decisionthat Chairman Kim has before him about how it is he wishes to proceed and if he is prepared in exchange for the assurances that we’re ready to provide to him if he is prepared to fully denuclearise.
And I’m not sure how to define it fully.”
He said the US wants to ensure that its efforts yield the end result, that North Korea should not become a threat to the world.