This was the number one item on their agenda at Pyongyang in discussions with Sec. Pompeo.
When Kim Yong Chol was at the White House in early June, Trump told him that the US would consider an announcement to end the Korean conflict. This falls in the category of CVIG which is the term Pompeo came up with, complete verifiable irreversible guarantee (of North Korean security). This negotiating concept represented an acceptance of a reciprocity principle. Reciprocity was demonstrated, at least on a temporary basis, when the joint military exercises were suspended. When Pompeo was meeting with Chol in Pyongyang, in reaction to the tsunami of criticism in the US of the summit and the suspension of joint military exercises, he blew off the proposal of an announcement to end the state of war and went strictly with his allegedly new formula FFVD. The latter is a superficial name change that failed to disguise the return to a unilateral ultimatum to denuclearize. This is the same hardline approach that almost derailed the summit before it happened. There won't be any denuclearization without dealing with the security guarantee issues for North Korea. Currently, the press and all other interested parties are to the right of Pompeo and Trump on this, so Pompeo retreated to the hardliner position which predictably failed.
The most recent South Korean news reports this morning, confirmed that the US side, at the Pyongyang meeting, would not accept a proposal for an announcement in the near future of the end of the Korean conflict. Presumably, not until there are substantial steps taken to denuclearize by North Korea. President Moon, referred to the which comes first problem, "the chicken or the egg," in relation to the current impasse. This impasse was probably known to the working level negotiators before the meeting in Pyongyang. South Korean reports suggest that more working level talks will take place in August, with the possibility of a turning point in September.
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