“Still in charge of the team,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said of himself after North Korea demanded he step aside in denuclearization talks.
By Carol Morello Carol Morello National reporter focusing on foreign policy and State Department Email Bio Follow April 19 at 1:00 PM Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday brushed off North Korean insults and demands that he be replaced by someone “more careful and mature” as the chief negotiator in denuclearization talks.
Pompeo, who has traveled to North Korea four times in the administration’s quest to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, has been a frequent target of harsh and personal criticism from North Korean officials. A statement quoting senior North Korean official Kwon Jong Gun, reported by the Korean Central News Agency, suggested Pompeo was responsible for the collapse of the summit talks in Hanoi. It said that whenever Pompeo “pokes his nose in, talks between the two countries go wrong without any results even from the point close to success.”
But Pompeo and Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono said sanctions will stay in place until North Korea denuclearizes and settles several other issues, including the return of Japanese citizens abducted in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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