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The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Tokyo on Saturday for talks with Japanese officials ahead of his trip to North Korea. Pompeo will meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Kono later today to discuss their North Korea policies before heading to Pyongyang tomorrow.
Tokyo is the first stop of his three-day East Asia tour, which also takes him to South Korea and China. Trump and Kim made a vague “denuclearisation” agreement in their June summit but deadlocked over how to achieve it.
North Korea so far has suspended nuclear and missile tests freed three American prisoners and dismantled parts of a missile engine facility and tunnel entrances at a nuclear test site.