Pompeo: "We know Chairman Kim has continued to make the commitment to denuclearize."

[Miles Archer]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States hopes to get back to denuclearization talks with North Korea in the coming days or weeks, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.

Negotiations aimed at dismantling Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs have stalled since the collapse of a second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in February.

Trump and Kim met again in June at the border between North Korea and South Korea and agreed to reopen working-level talks, but that has not happened.

“We know Chairman Kim has continued to make the commitment to denuclearize. We are hopeful that in the coming days or perhaps weeks we’ll be back at the negotiating table with them. That’s the best outcome,” Pompeo said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-idUSKCN1VT0OV

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Translation: Kim continues to shine us on...

but in the Trump Reich that is winning!

[struggle4progress]

2. "And y'all stop by the White House Gift Shop for a Commemorative Medal and Trump-branded Sharpie!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Pompeo seems happy to keep eating Fat Nixon's shit sandwiches.

[CentralMass]

4. I wonder what these treasonous bastards are getting out of this.

Is it Russian money ?

[trof]

5. Pompous is pulling for The Rapture.

[Takket]

6. i don't think a single book could ever capture the incompetance of the drumpf administration

scholars are going to need an encyclopedia type publications with volumes of books and tens of thousands of pages to explain the stupidity of it all from Alabama to Wales with an "h" (Whales?)

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Trump is like Kim having Eric T as a son -

- a total freaking idiot.

[tanyev]

8. I don't think that word means what you think it means, Sec. Pompeo.

[soryang]

9. The Silence of August

The Silence of August
BY: ROBERT L. GALLUCCI
AUGUST 21, 2019

https://www.38north.org/2019/08/rgallucci082119/

“38 North, a webjournal that provides analysis and insights into North Korea“

The only path to progress in reducing the risk of war and building peace and security on the peninsula is a step-by-step negotiating process with each side making reciprocal and parallel concessions. The president’s all-or-nothing approach has given us nothing, except the promise that things will get worse in the new year.

Stephen Beigun's speech on September 6, at the University of Michigan, offered little but vague platitudes unlikely to result in renewed dialogue with North Korea. In fact, his speech was less promising than public statements he has made in the past and represents the retrenchment to the hardline position by the US, revealed at Hanoi, alongside his apparent lack of authority to negotiate.

Remarks by Special Representative for North Korea Stephen E. Biegun at the University of Michigan’s Weiser Diplomacy Center, Sep 6, 2019; https://www.state.gov/remarks-by-special-representative-for-north-korea-stephen-e-biegun-at-the-university-of-michigans-weiser-diplomacy-center/

I was thinking that this typhoon which damaged North Korean farmlands would provide an ideal opportunity to show goodwill by the US, but I doubt if the hardliners in the administration would try to take advantage of it. If the US doesn't get away from the Bolton hard line, there won't be any progress with North Korea, it will just remain another regime change policy.