Pompeo Seeks North Korea Breakthrough as Talks Enter Second Day
- Without specifics, ‘just spinning our wheels’: analyst Pollack
- Secretary of state due to travel to Japan after Saturday talks
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened a second day of talks in North Korea on Saturday with growing expectations that he needs to win specific commitments from Pyongyang about its nuclear program or risk seeing the nascent relationship between the U.S. and North Korea founder.
Pompeo has given few details about his goals for this latest round of talks -- his third visit to North Korea this year but the first since President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un met in Singapore last month. At their summit, the two leaders signed a vague 1-1/2 page document that didn’t provide a timetable for dismantling North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.