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North Korea wants Pompeo removed from nuclear talks: KCNA
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends a news conference at a warehouse where international humanitarian aid for Venezuela is being stored, near La Unidad cross-border bridge between Colombia and Venezuela in Cucuta, Colombia April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
18 Apr 2019 03:40PM (Updated: 18 Apr 2019 03:40PM)
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SEOUL: North Korea on Thursday (Apr 18) demanded the removal of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from stalled nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington, accusing him of derailing discussions.
"I am afraid that, if Pompeo engages in the talks again, the table will be lousy once again and the talks will become entangled," Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the Department of American Affairs at North Korea's Foreign Affairs Ministry said, according to the official KCNA news agency.
READ: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees test of new tactical guided weapon: KCNA
READ: Satellite images may show reprocessing activity at North Korea nuclear site: US researchers
"Therefore, even in the case of possible resumption of the dialogue with the US, I wish our dialogue counterpart would be not Pompeo but... (another) person who is more careful and mature in communicating with us."
The comments were released hours after Pyongyang announced the test-firing of a new tactical weapon with a "powerful warhead" - the first such test since nuclear negotiations with Washington stalled.
The test-fire marked a ratcheting up of tensions weeks after a summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump collapsed without agreement.
And Kwon Jong Gun warned that if the US did not "get rid of the root cause" that led the North to acquire nuclear weapons, "no one can predict the situation on the Korean peninsula".
But, he added, it was "fortunate" that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump remained on "good terms as usual" despite the gridlock in nuclear talks.
Source: AFP/na
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un to Meet Putin in Moscow This Month — Kremlin
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11 hours ago
Kim Jong Un Kin Cheung / AP / TASS
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will travel to Russia in the second half of this month and meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
The announcement coincided with a moment of discord in efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to reach a deal with Kim to end nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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North Korea said on Thursday it no longer wanted to deal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and called for him to be replaced in talks by somebody more mature. That demand came hours after Pyongyang announced its first weapons test since the last summit between Trump and Kim in Vietnam in February broke down with no agreement.
The pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper cited a diplomatic source on Wednesday as saying the Putin-Kim meeting would likely take place next week in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok before Putin flies on to an April 26-27 summit in China.
It added though that a sudden change of plan by the leader of the secretive North Korean state could not be ruled out.
The Kremlin gave no further details in a statement on its website, but Moscow has been saying for months that it was working on such a meeting.
It was not clear how Kim might travel to the summit.
A North Korean official, Kim Chang Son, traveled to Vladivostok this week and was seen on Wednesday inspecting the Pacific city's train station and making security checks, Russia's RIA news agency reported on Thursday.
U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun was due in Moscow on Wednesday and Thursday to meet Russian officials to discuss ways to advance a "final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea," Washington said on Tuesday.
The Trump-Kim meeting in Vietnam, the second summit between the two leaders, broke down over conflicting demands by North Korea for sanctions relief and by the United States for North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. The following month Washington imposed a new round of sanctions on Pyongyang.
Trump administration officials have floated the possibility of a third summit.
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North Korea wants Pompeo removed from nuclear talks: KCNA
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends a news conference at a warehouse where international humanitarian aid for Venezuela is being stored, near La Unidad cross-border bridge between Colombia and Venezuela in Cucuta, Colombia April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
18 Apr 2019 03:40PM (Updated: 18 Apr 2019 03:40PM)
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SEOUL: North Korea on Thursday (Apr 18) demanded the removal of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from stalled nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington, accusing him of derailing discussions.
"I am afraid that, if Pompeo engages in the talks again, the table will be lousy once again and the talks will become entangled," Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the Department of American Affairs at North Korea's Foreign Affairs Ministry said, according to the official KCNA news agency.
READ: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees test of new tactical guided weapon: KCNA
READ: Satellite images may show reprocessing activity at North Korea nuclear site: US researchers
"Therefore, even in the case of possible resumption of the dialogue with the US, I wish our dialogue counterpart would be not Pompeo but... (another) person who is more careful and mature in communicating with us."
The comments were released hours after Pyongyang announced the test-firing of a new tactical weapon with a "powerful warhead" - the first such test since nuclear negotiations with Washington stalled.
The test-fire marked a ratcheting up of tensions weeks after a summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump collapsed without agreement.
And Kwon Jong Gun warned that if the US did not "get rid of the root cause" that led the North to acquire nuclear weapons, "no one can predict the situation on the Korean peninsula".
But, he added, it was "fortunate" that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump remained on "good terms as usual" despite the gridlock in nuclear talks.
Source: AFP/na
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un to Meet Putin in Moscow This Month — Kremlin
By Reuters
11 hours ago
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will travel to Russia in the second half of this month and meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
The announcement coincided with a moment of discord in efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to reach a deal with Kim to end nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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North Korea said on Thursday it no longer wanted to deal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and called for him to be replaced in talks by somebody more mature. That demand came hours after Pyongyang announced its first weapons test since the last summit between Trump and Kim in Vietnam in February broke down with no agreement.
The pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper cited a diplomatic source on Wednesday as saying the Putin-Kim meeting would likely take place next week in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok before Putin flies on to an April 26-27 summit in China.
It added though that a sudden change of plan by the leader of the secretive North Korean state could not be ruled out.
The Kremlin gave no further details in a statement on its website, but Moscow has been saying for months that it was working on such a meeting.
It was not clear how Kim might travel to the summit.
A North Korean official, Kim Chang Son, traveled to Vladivostok this week and was seen on Wednesday inspecting the Pacific city's train station and making security checks, Russia's RIA news agency reported on Thursday.
U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun was due in Moscow on Wednesday and Thursday to meet Russian officials to discuss ways to advance a "final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea," Washington said on Tuesday.
The Trump-Kim meeting in Vietnam, the second summit between the two leaders, broke down over conflicting demands by North Korea for sanctions relief and by the United States for North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. The following month Washington imposed a new round of sanctions on Pyongyang.
Trump administration officials have floated the possibility of a third summit.
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