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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Undermined by a blistering rebuke of his forge to denuclearization deal with North Korea, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday appealed for North Korea's leadership to follow Vietnam's path in overcoming past hostilities with United States.
Pompeo called on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to replicate Vietnam's "miracle" of economic growth by improving the United States, vowing that America keeps its promises with the formation of
Speaking to members of the US -Vietnamese business community in Hanoi, Pompeo said Vietnam's experience since the normalization of relations with the US in 1995 should be proof for North Korea that prosperity and partnership with the US is possible after decades of conflict and mistrust. "Pompeo said," We know it is a real possibility because we have made this remarkable path. "
" The fact that we are cooperating – and not fighting – For the United States, we follow through on American promises, "he said, repeating President Donald Trump's pledge to help improve North Korea's economy and provide it with security assurances in return for Kim giving up nuclear weapons. "In light of the ounce-unimaginable prosperity and partnership we have with Vietnam today, I have a message for Chairman Kim Jong Un: President Trump believes your country can replicate this path."
"It's yours if you'll get sixteen the moment. "This miracle can be yours." Pompeo said.
The comments came after Pompeo had earlier Sunday in North Korea's North Korea's accusation that the US was making "gangster- like "denuclearization demands of the North. He maintained that his third visit to North Korea on Friday and Saturday had produced results. But he also vowed that sanctions would remain until Pyongyang follows through on
Pompeo downplayed a harshly critical North Korean statement issued after the talks in which the country's foreign ministry bashed hopes for a quick deal and attacked the US for making unreasonable and extortionate demands for forcing it to abandon nuclear weapons. The statement was made to fuel growing skepticism in the US and elsewhere over how serious.
"If people asked were gangster-like, the world is a gangster," Pompeo said, noting that numerous UN Security Council Resolutions have requested that the North of the ballistic missile program. "I am going to pay attention to the press, I'd go nuts and I refuse to do that."
After meeting with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Tokyo, Pompeo said his two days of talks in Pyongyang had been productive and conducted in good faith. "The road ahead will be difficult and challenging, and we know it will work to the extent that we have achieved it," he said. He added that he had made some progress in the past, and that he had "made progress" and "detailed and substantive discussion about the next steps towards a fully verified and complete denuclearization."
Those include the formation of a working group to determine exactly how North Korea's denuclearization is going to be verified and to have a clear view of the history of the United States of America (19659002) Pompeo sought to dispel suggestions that the Trump administration has backed down from complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of the North nuclear weapons. He said North Korea understood that it must be "fully verified" and "final."
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said that North Korea had a written pledge for "complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization" for historical reasons but stressed that the goal remained the same whether exactly phrase was used. Fully verified, final denuclearization "is not any softer in stating our shared goal of complete denuclearization," she said.
Despite what he described as progress, Pompeo said the results so far did not warrant any easing of sanctions, which he The United States would be enforced "with vigor" until "North Korea follows through with denuclearization."
After Trump's historic summit with Kim in Singapore, the president of the United States of America was declared to be a threat to the United States. Yet three weeks later, the two sides were still divided on all the issues, including exactly what and how it could be verified.
And just hours after Pompeo arrived in Tokyo from Pyongyang on Saturday, the North blasted the new talks, saying they had been "regretted."
In a statement by the North's official Korean Central News Agency, the foreign ministry said the outcome of Pompeo's talks with senior official Kim Yong Chol was "very concerning" because it was "a dangerous phase that might have been a cause for denuclearization that had been firm." [19659002"WehadexpectedthattheUSsidewouldofferconstructivemeasuresthatwouldhelpusbuildtrustbasedontheleaders'summitwewerealsothinkingofprovidingreciprocalmeasures"itsaid"HowevertheattitudeandstanceoftheUnitedStateshasbeenregrettablyhigh"(19659002)ItsaidtheNorthhadtobesofoolishRaisedtheissueoftheKoreanWarwhichconcludedwithanarmisticeandnotapeacetreatybuttheUScameupwithavarietyof"conditionsandexcuses"todelayadeclarationItdownplayedthesignificanceoftheUnitedStatessuspendingitsmilitaryexerciseswithSouthKoreasomethingtrumpetedbyTrumpafterthesummitbysayingitmadealargerconcessionbyblowingupthetunnelsatanucleartestsite
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