“Secretary Pompeo looks forward to going to North Korea in the near future, most likely after our Trading relationship with China is resolved,” Trump wrote. The president’s tweets marked an abrupt shift in his public posture after he insisted for weeks that progress was being made after his landmark meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June. He has decried critics who cited a lack of firm commitments required of North Korea in the Singapore agreement. U.S. negotiators have struggled in recent weeks over a North Korean demand for the United States to declare an end to the Korean War before the North makes any concessions on denuclearization. The cancellation is the second time Trump has called off a high-level bilateral meeting with North Korea.

Source: Washington Post August 24, 2018 17:58 UTC