US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will have to show "bold leadership" and seize the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" as Washington and Pyongyang prepare for a proposed summit between their two leaders.
He said the two nations face a "pivotal moment" in their relationship in which "it could be nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste."
North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol, who is in New York to hold talks with Pompeo, would deliver a letter from his leader, Kim Jong-un, to Trump at the White House today. When asked if it would be clear then that a summit would actually take place, Pompeo said "Don't know. Don't know the answer to that."
The secretary of state said working together, the people of the US and North Korea could create a future defined by "friendship and collaboration and not by distrust, fear and threats."
Pompeo said Trump and he believed that Kim was the kind of leader who could make these kinds of decisions and "that in the coming weeks and months, we will have the opportunity to test whether or not this is the case."
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