{"id":184429,"date":"2018-10-06T03:56:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T07:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184429"},"modified":"2018-10-06T03:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T07:56:37","slug":"pompeo-japan-discuss-north-korea-en-route-pyongyang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/06\/pompeo-japan-discuss-north-korea-en-route-pyongyang\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo in Japan to discuss North Korea en route to Pyongyang"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pompeo will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Kono later Saturday to discuss their North Korea policies before heading to Pyongyang on Sunday. (File photo<\/a>: Mike Pompeo\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TOKYO \u2014 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Tokyo on Saturday for talks with Japanese officials ahead of his trip to North Korea.<\/p>\n

Pompeo is under pressure to make progress on convincing North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons as President Donald Trump seeks to meet with leader Kim Jong Un for a second time after their June summit in Singapore.<\/p>\n

Pompeo will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Kono later Saturday to discuss their North Korea policies before heading to Pyongyang on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Tokyo is the first stop of his three-day East Asia tour, which also takes him to South Korea and China.<\/p>\n

In Beijing, Pompeo will face tensions over trade and accusations of election interference. In contrast, Pompeo’s meetings with Abe and Kono should be more relaxed.<\/p>\n

They planned to touch base and deepen co-operation on their effort to achieve North Korea’s denuclearization, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters Friday, though he did not elaborate.<\/p>\n

The real diplomatic test for Pompeo will come in Pyongyang.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his plane Friday, Pompeo said his mission was to “make sure that we understand what each side is truly trying to achieve … and how we can deliver against the commitments that were made” in Singapore. He said they would develop options, if not finalize, the location and timing of second Trump-Kim summit.<\/p>\n

Trump and Kim made a vague “denuclearization” agreement their June summit but deadlocked over how to achieve it.<\/p>\n

North Korea so far has suspended nuclear and missile tests, freed three American prisoners and dismantled parts of a missile engine facility and tunnel entrances at a nuclear test site. But it has not hasn’t taken any steps to halt nuclear weapons or missile development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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