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Pompeo: No US-North Korea Talks Possible by End of September

Reuters

   NEW YORK - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday the
   United States has not been able to arrange working-level meetings with
   North Korea in September, but Washington is ready to meet and believes
   it is important to do so.

   Negotiations aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear and missile
   programs have stalled since a failed second summit between U.S.
   President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in February.

   "We have see these public statements that we were hopeful that there
   would be working level meetings by the end of this month ... we've not
   been able to make those happen and we don't have a date yet when we
   will be able to get together," Pompeo said at a news conference in New
   York, where he attended the United Nations General Assembly this week.

   North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho is not attending the annual
   gathering of world leaders, having done so for the past three years.

   "Our team is prepared to meet with them, I think it's important that we
   do," Pompeo said.

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