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PYONGYANG.- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began his first visit to Pyongyang since President Donald Trump's summit with leader Kim Jong-un last month , with the promise to detail the details of Kim's commitments to denuclearization .
Pompeo who arrived Friday in the North Korean capital, has the important task of dispelling the growing skepticism as to whether Kim will really get rid of his nuclear arsenal and bring an optimistic rhetoric to it. action.
Kim Yong-chol, a senior ruling party official and former intelligence director, and Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, met him at the airport. Shortly after, Kim Yong-chol, who took half of the negotiations in Washington on behalf of Kim Jong-un, had the first talks.
"The more you come, the more confident we build between you," Kim told Pompeo according to a group of journalists traveling with the secretary. It is not clear whether Pompeo would meet Kim Jong-un directly as he did previously.
On the way to Pyongyang, Pompeo declared that the two parties engaged at the summit of Singapore to complete the denuclearization of North Korea ] and how it would be a transformed bilateral relationship.
"On this trip, I am looking for details of some of these commitments and continue the momentum towards implementing what the two leaders have promised each other and the world. Hope the DPRK is ready to do the same, "said Pompeo using the acronym of the official name of North Korea.
There is increasing questioning about the intentions of North Korea when it is said that it is expanding facilities related to its nuclear programs and missiles, and that the US intelligence is skeptical about its intentions to sacrifice their weapons.
Trump needed Pompeo to score points in order to put an end to doubts as to whether the president, who had already ordered the suspension of large-scale US military trials against Korea South, complete denuclearization for his desire to claim a quick triumph.
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