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TOKYO (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Tokyo on Saturday for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other officials before his fourth visit to North Korea for denuclearization talks with its leader Kim Jong Un.
PHOTO FILE: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Holds Press Conference at US Headquarters in New York, New York, USA, July 20, 2018. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid
Despite Kim's commitment to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, Japan, Washington's main ally in Asia, still considers North Korea a "formidable threat." space.
Speaking to a pool reporter en route to Tokyo, Pompeo said his goal in Pyongyang was "to make sure we understand what each party is trying to do." for a second summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un after their first meeting in Singapore in June.
Pompeo's latest visit to North Korea has not progressed, with Pyongyang denouncing him for his "gangster demands".
Recently, he has irritated North Korea by insisting that international sanctions must remain in force until it abandons its nuclear weapons. On Wednesday, he said that the UN General Assembly, meeting last week, unanimously supported this proposal, even though Russia and China "had ideas on how we could start thinking at a moment's notice. where it should be reduced. "
(This version of the story corrects the word in the first paragraph)
