Trump says summit with North Korea to happen early next year
US President Donald J. Trump speaks at a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 07 November 2018. EPA-Yonhap |
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un looks at U.S. President Donald Trump before their bilateral meeting at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. Yonhap |
Trump's remarks came hours after the U.S. announced the postponement of Thursday's scheduled meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean officials in New York.
"We're very happy how it's going with North Korea," Trump said at a White House press conference on Tuesday's midterm elections, adding that the meeting will be rescheduled.
He attributed the sudden cancellation to "trips that are being made," but did not elaborate.
"We think it's going fine," Trump said. "We're in no rush. We're in no hurry. The sanctions are still on."
Pompeo and Kim Yong-chol, a close aide to the North Korean leader, were expected to continue talks on dismantling the regime's nuclear weapons program and arranging a second summit between the leader and Trump.
Asked if he still plans to have the second summit, the U.S. president said, "Sometime next year, I would say. Sometime early next year."
The State Department provided no explanation for the meeting's postponement.
Pompeo delays talks set this week with senior North Koreans 2018-11-07 14:07 | North Korea
In a statement released at midnight, the department said the two sides "will reconvene when our respective schedules permit."
In this July 7, 2018 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, and Kim Yong Chol, a North Korean senior ruling party official and former intelligence chief, arrive for a lunch at the Park Hwa Guest House in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim Yong Chol, a senior North Korean envoy's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo has been delayed, throwing already deadlocked diplomacy over the North's nuclear weapons into further uncertainty. AP-Yonhap |
"Ongoing conversations continue to take place," it said. "The United States remains focused on fulfilling the commitments agreed to by President Trump and Chairman Kim at the Singapore Summit in June."
The Singapore summit was the first meeting between Trump and Kim, who committed to work toward "complete" denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in exchange for security guarantees from the U.S.
The abrupt rescheduling raises questions about the prospects for continued negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang.
North Korea has increasingly called for sanctions relief in return for its denuclearization steps, but the U.S. has refused to comply until the full and verified denuclearization of the regime.
Trump said Wednesday that he would "love to take the sanctions off, but they have to be responsive, too."
In August, Trump canceled Pompeo's planned trip to Pyongyang, citing a lack of progress in North Korea's denuclearization.
Before that he also called off the Singapore summit before putting it back on.
That decision came after Kim Yong-chol met with Pompeo in New York in May. At the time, Kim also traveled to Washington to deliver a personal letter from the North Korean leader to Trump at the White House.
Speaking at a regular press briefing, State Department deputy spokesperson Robert Palladino emphasized that the postponement was "purely a matter of scheduling."
"Schedules change all the time," he said. "Everything else remains completely on track." (Yonhap)
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