Kim GHOSTED us, says Trump’s secretary of state after nuclear summit is canceled, revealing U.S. got ‘no response’ from North Korea about meeting preparations
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a Senate panel that North Korea’s government disappeared at a crucial point in pre-summit negotiations
Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump were to meet June 12 in Singapore for nuclear disarmament talks
The U.S. ‘received no response to our inquiries from them,’ Pompeo said
Trump called off the meeting Thursday morning in a letter to Kim
In the absence of progress, Pompeo said, ‘In some ways it’s “situation normal.” The pressure campaign continues’
By DAVID MARTOSKO
DAILYMAIL.COM
24 May 2018
The North Korean government completely ignored the Trump administration’s efforts to nail down details of a planned June 12 nuclear arms summit in Singapore, effectively disappearing in the middle of pre-meeting protocol negotiations.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had met personally in April with Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, sketching out the contours of the face-to-face that President Donald Trump canceled Thursday morning.
In testimony during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Pompeo said there was no chance of ‘a successful outcome,’ in some part because Kim’s team was AWOL when it counted.
‘Over the past many days we have endeavored to do what Chairman Kim and I had agreed, [which] was to put teams, preparation teams together, to begin to work to prepare for the summit,’ he told senators. ‘And we had received no response to our inquiries from them.’
Instead of engaging with the White House, Kim lashed out at Mike Pence following the U.S. vice president’s comments hinting that North Korea could face the same fate as Libya if it doesn’t disarm.
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