1. During her visit to Japan, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on July 8. In the meeting, they shared their assessments of the current situation, including the results of Secretary Pompeo’s latest visit to North Korea, and discussed the way forward to make substantive progress in achieving complete denuclearization and establish a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.

2. The two sides said that Secretary Pompeo’s latest visit to North Korea, as the first high-level consultation between the US and North Korea since the US-North Korea summit on June 12, was a meaningful starting point for robust follow-up negotiations. Building upon the results of the latest visit to North Korea, the two sides agreed to continue close consultations at each level for the denuclearization process to move forward at a faster pace.

3. Minister Kang explained the latest progress in inter-Korean relations to Secretary Pompeo, and the two sides agreed to continue to closely work together to make sure that the development of inter-Korean relations, and the process to achieve complete denuclearization and establish a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula give momentum to each other.

* unofficial translation