US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to visit China and South Korea after Donald Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un
Pompeo will give update on next steps involving Pyongyang and emphasise importance of enforcing sanctions against North Korea
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he will visit Beijing and Seoul next week to brief senior officials from China, South Korea and Japan on the outcome of the first-ever summit between the United States and North Korea in Singapore.
Pompeo said he would meet South Korea’s Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono in Seoul on Wednesday before heading to Beijing on Thursday for meetings with senior officials from China, an important ally of North Korea.
At a press briefing on Thursday, the chief US diplomat said he would discuss with his counterparts the next steps involving Pyongyang, in what he said would be “an update and underscore the importance of fully implementing all sanctions that are imposed on North Korea”.
Pompeo will be in Singapore on Tuesday to accompany US President Donald Trump for his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Stressing that Trump “will not stand for a bad deal”, Pompeo said complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula “is the only outcome that we will find acceptable”.
