Pence: US is still waiting for North Korea to take 'concrete steps' toward denuclearization

[Eugene]

Source: USA Today

SEOUL – North Korea has not taken “concrete steps” to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, Vice President Mike Pence told a group of U.S. diplomats on Wednesday.

Speaking to about 180 U.S. ambassadors at a conference in the State Department, Pence said Pyongyang has not yet begun to fulfill its pledge for complete denuclearization made in a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last June in Singapore.

"While the president has started a promising dialogue with Chairman Kim, we still await concrete steps by North Korea to dismantle the nuclear weapons that threaten our people and our allies in the region," Pence said.

The vice president’s remarks came amidst growing signs that a second summit between Trump and Kim is in the works. North Korea’s top nuclear negotiator, Kim Yong Chol, is expected to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Thursday ahead of a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a South Korean newspaper and other media outlets reported Wednesday.

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Thomas Maresca, Special to USA TODAY Published 12:00 a.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019 | Updated 1:11 a.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019


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[TreasonousBastard]

1. And we'll keep waiting. The greatest negotiator on the planet never heard...

"If you're playing cards and you don't know who is the mark at the table-- you're the mark."

[LakeSuperiorView]

2. Or steel slats towards denuclearization. Really, as long as Mexico pays for it,

they'll take anything, because Kim loves Donnie and Donnie loves Kim.

[DRoseDARs]

3. Poor Pence. It's like waiting for Mother's approval... nt

[KG]

4. or what? not sure what leverage the u.s. has. except stupid and useless war that would destroy s.k.

[Roy Rolling]

5. He's always the last to know

I knew that from day one, so did anyone with a brain. NFS, Comrade Penski.

[lark]

6. drumpf got played - as usual. Is there a more ignorant asshole alive?

His self-proclaimed lover is fucking him over badly, showing what a total clown he is, and he's too ignorant to even notice.

[hatrack]

7. Uh, yeah, Mike - we already knew that . . .

[turbinetree]

8. Hey Treasonous Bastard..................how did you your Marine Son think of your speach

yesterday that ISS has now been defeated in Syria after 4 Americans were murdered along with sixteen Syrians were also murdered also along with 3 other Americans being injured and then you come out with this shit.....................about North Korea, ..............................your a fucking asshole................and your empathy is so full of shit, that shit has more warmth and purpose....................................




November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough........................asshole

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. NK has made it very clear what it's going to do with the weapons program, so for Pence to get up

and spew this garbage is insulting.