Pompeo, Kim to begin working-level talks on denuclearisation

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today said that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made significant progress towards an agreement for the North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. 

Talking to media persons in South Korean capital of Seoul, Mr Pompeo said he and Kim have agreed to shortly begin working-level talks on the nuts and bolts of denuclearisation, on the placement of international inspectors at one of North Korea's main nuclear facilities,and finalising a date and venue for the next Kim-Trump



summit.

Shortly after Mr Pompeo left North Korea, US President Donald Trump, tweeted from Washington that he is looking  forward to meet Chairman Kim again in the near future. 

Meanwhile, North Korea's state-run news agency KCNA, said that Kim has expressed his will and conviction that a great progress will surely be made in solving the issues of utmost concern of the world and in attaining the goal set forth at the last talks with the projected second  Korea-US summit talks as an occasion.