WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday canceled Secretary ofState Mike Pompeo’s planned trip to North Korea for renewed negotiations topersuade it to abandon its nuclear weapons, citing insufficient progress onthe issue.
It was a dramatic shift of tone for Trump, who had previously hailed hisJune summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a success and said theNorth Korean nuclear threat was over.
“I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, atthis time, because I feel we are not making sufficient progress withrespect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” Trump said onTwitter.