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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Tokyo yesterday after a two-day visit to North Korea during which he discussed his denuclearization, informing his Japanese and South Korean counterparts. Sunday. The United States has been conformist and has spoken of "great progress" in the negotiations, but Pyongyang has expressed its discomfort by launching a kind of comedy about the post-summit nuclear entanglement between US President Donald Trump and the US. his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un. 19659002] The head of the American diplomacy met for the second day in a row yesterday with General Kim Yong-chol, an important figure of North Korean intelligence, although he did not meet leader Kim Jong-un, as he did in his two previous visits to Pyongyang, confirmed by the US State Department.

"These are complicated questions, but I think we have progressed on almost all the central themes, in some we have made great progress, in others there is still work to be done" Pompeo said before leaving the North Korean capital in a statement posted on the network by state department spokesman Heather Nauert. Pompeo and Kim Yong-chol, who played a key role in holding the summit in Washington and Pyongyang in Singapore, addressed issues that they left "confused" at their three-hour meeting on Friday and have talked about "building trust" without transcending a possible roadmap towards denuclearization, the main objective of the visit. The US Secretary of State expressed his desire to continue the talks and reiterated the commitment of US President Donald Trump, "with a better future for North Korea" at the beginning of his meeting with Kim, who lasted six hours, reported the US media traveling with him.

Pompeo shared in his Twitter profile photographs released yesterday by State Department spokesman, Heather Nauert, in which he is seen leaving for the meeting and the team in full negotiation; He also took some before he left. Nauert is the one who revealed that Washington and Pyongyang had agreed the day before to create working groups to deal with "essential things," including the verification of North Korean denuclearization, and deal with the repatriation of soldiers. The secretary of state was "very firm" on these issues, said Nauert, adding, "We never thought it would be easy." This third visit to Pyongyang, Pompeo, where he spent the first time at night in the Asian country (hosted in the residence Paekhwawon State Guest), was considered as a first test to measure the scale of the day. regime's commitment to disarmament.

Pompeo will meet Sunday in Tokyo with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts, Taro Kono and Kang Kyung-wha, to badyze the results of this trip and then offer a press conference. The head of the US diplomacy will also meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. This is Pompeo's first visit to Japan since he took office at the beginning of the year.

Meanwhile, North Korea severely criticized the United States' attitude in the denuclearization negotiations a few hours after his departure. the country's secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.

When Pompeo arrived in Tokyo after two days of talks in Pyongyang, the Foreign Ministry of the North Korean communist regime described the Trump government's position in these talks as "regrettable" and "disturbing".

In a statement issued by the KCNA state agency, the North Korean regime yesterday said that "the request of the United States for denuclearization to be unilateral and forced was regrettable", while reiterating his request for disarmament. "progressive" form. The regime called the outcome of the talks "worrying" and said that they have not served to build trust between the two sides, but rather to "cope with a dangerous phase in which our will denuclearization could falter ".

A spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry said Washington had expressed "against the spirit" demands of Trump's June historic summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong- one, which has not served to build trust between the two parties. On June 12, Kim Jong-un and Trump signed a declaration with which they declared opening a new era of relations and in which the North Korean regime pledged to work for a "total denuclearization" if Washington guarantees his survival. But the document did not provide details and, after several weeks, skepticism and doubts about the viability of the agreement grew stronger. In this context, the visit to Pyongyang of the head of the American diplomacy took place.