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Addressing business leaders of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, Pompeo said that he hoped that the United States would one day share the same level of partnership with North Korea as With Vietnam, a long-time enemy. Mike Pompeo. (Photo: Reuters)
HANOI: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday urged North Korea to follow the example of Vietnam, saying that President Donald Trump thought that Pyongyang could replicate the relations Hanoi's normal with Washington and prosperity. To do this, his leader Kim Jong Un was to seize the opportunity
addressing the business leaders of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, Pompeo said he hoped the US- United would one day share the same level of partnership with North Korea. His comments followed two days of cold talks in Pyongyang aimed at persuading Kim to abandon nuclear weapons, prompting North Korean accusations that he had used "gangster-like" diplomacy. [1965:00004] Pompeo said Sunday that, in the aftermath of these talks, Trump believed that North Korea could replicate the path taken by Vietnam, whose leaders realized that their country could reform and build relationships without it. said that the key to the rise of Vietnam was the Vietnam war engagement with the United States, which began in 1985, when countries began to work together to repatriate the remains of US military lost in Vietnam .
As part of his talks with North Korea, Pompeo called for the return of the remains of the 1950-53 Korean War, and officials from both sides are scheduled to meet next week to discuss the details of the issue. He said that over the last two decades, bilateral trade between the United States and Vietnam had increased by 8,000% and that US firms had invested billions of dollars in investment
. We are cooperating "When a country decides to create a better future for itself alongside the United States, we respect the American promises," Pompeo said. "The miracle could be your miracle," Pompeo said of Korea. The United States has been clear about what we are looking for from North Korea … ", said Pompeo." The choice now belongs to North Korea and its people. "
" If they are able to do that, they will remember, and we will remember President Kim, as the hero of the Korean people. "
