Mike Pompeo on his way to North Korea to prepare summit, Trump says
The Washington Post first reported that Pompeo could return with the prisoners.
Trump bankrupt off the headlines whilst declaring his new plans to withdraw out of your Iran nuclear contract. The president cast Pompeo's second visit as a step forward in the preparation for the summit, which could happen by late June. "Relationships are building", Trump said at the White House. North Korea needs China to boost its economy, while Xi can use closer ties with Kim as leverage in his talks with Trump about trade, according to Zhu Feng, professor of worldwide relations at Nanjing University.
Chinese state media showed pictures of Kim smiling in an outdoors meeting with Xi, and the two leaders strolling along a waterfront. His trip comes just days after North Korea expressed displeasure with Washington for comments suggesting that massive US pressure had pushed Kim to the negotiating table.
A South Korean government official told reporters in Tokyo Wednesday he expects Pompeo to leave Pyongyang with three American detainees who have been held in North Korea for months.
The three still being held are Korean-American missionary Kim Dong-chul; Kim Sang-duk, also known as Tony Kim, who spent a month teaching at the foreign-funded Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) before he was arrested in 2017; and Kim Hak-song, who also taught at PUST. Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have dropped hints recently that they could be freed soon.
Mr Pompeo will also press for the release of three U.S. prisoners from the country.
Although there were no guarantees that the American prisoners would be freed during Pompeo's visit, USA officials said their release would be significant goodwill gesture ahead of the Trump-Kim summit that is expected later this month or in early June. "Maybe it won't. But it can be a great thing for North Korea, South Korea and the entire world", Trump said in a televised address from the White House.
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"We're not going to relieve sanctions until such time as we achieved our objectives" of a complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearisation, he said.
Pompeo was dispatched on an unannounced visit - his second in weeks, but first as secretary of state - to lay the groundwork for Donald Trump's unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un.
He said that he hopes North Korea will "do the right thing".
Pompeo confirmed his trip on Twitter, writing that he was "headed back to #DPRK at the invitation of the North Korean leadership". He was accompanied by several other senior officials, including Brian Hook, State's policy planning chief, and Matthew Pottinger, the senior Asia director at the National Security Council.
He added Mr Pompeo would arrive in North Korea "probably in an hour". Arrangements were made in great secrecy befitting a former Central Intelligence Agency director.
Pompeo said the US has no interest in following a step-by-step process, which, under past administrations, failed to end the North's nuclear ambitions.
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