The North Korean mission to the United Nations declined to comment. Many other key officials learned of Trump’s decision by seeing the crawl across a television screen, some during a meeting on North Korea negotiations, officials said. “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. Talks since then have made little headway, with the two sides far apart on denuclearization and the US insistence for this to happen before North Korea sees any sanctions relief. Trump’s decision came just days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog reported it had not found any indication that North Korea had stopped its nuclear activities.

Source: Egypt Independent August 25, 2018 05:03 UTC