Pompeo meets top North Korean official in New York to salvage summit


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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a top North Korean official have met in New York over a steak dinner to try to salvage next month’s summit between the North Korean and US leaders.


Kim Yong Chol, considered the right-hand man of leader Kim Jong Un, was the most senior North Korean official to visit the United States in 18 years.


Pyongyang’s envoy joined Pompeo at the apartment of a US diplomat on Manhattan’s East side for the evening meal that lasted about an hour and a half. Two more meetings are scheduled for Thursday.


Asked about the working dinner, Pompeo told reporters afterwards: “It was great”.


“Good working dinner with Kim Yong Chol in New York tonight,” he later tweeted. “Steak, corn, and cheese on the menu.”


It was the third meeting between the two officials who are working to finalise planning for a June 12 summit designed to end a nuclear standoff that once threatened to plunge Korea back into war.


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is greeted by senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol, director of the United Front Department.

“They are meeting to see what needs to be done in the two weeks that remain,” a senior US official said.


The United States wants North Korea to agree to “complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula.


US and North Korean envoys have also been meeting in Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, and an American team is in Singapore to make logistical arrangements for the rapidly planned meeting.


Trump to decide on summit 


Earlier this month, President Donald Trump suddenly announced a cancellation of the summit after North Korea issued a sharp rebuke of what it saw as threatening language from the US side, and Washington has warned talks could be postponed if Kim is not serious about disarmament.


“Between now and if we’re going to have a summit, they’re going to have to make clear what they’re willing to do,” said the official.


The decision to hold the summit “is 100 per cent in the hands of the president,” he added.


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is greeted by senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol, director of the United Front Department.

The State Department released photos of a smiling Pompeo shaking hands with Kim Yong Chol, pointing out New York landmarks to him by a window and toasting his guests.


The menu featured burrata salad, filet mignon with corn puree, blanched celeriac and pan-wilted spinach. There was homemade vanilla ice cream for dessert.


Pompeo has scheduled a news conference on Thursday, at the end of his meetings with Kim.



 


 


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