트럼프 "남북서 아주 좋은 소식…北 관련 엄청난 진전 있어"... 폼페이오 "북미협상 곧바로 할 준비…오스트리아 빈서 회담추진"<br /><br /> Donald Trump praised the historic third inter-Korean summit of the year.<br />The U.S. president said there's been "tremendous progress" with North Korea on several fronts,... including Pyeongyang's denuclearization.<br />Lee Seung-jae shares with us his remarks. <br /> Speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday,... U.S. President Donald Trump praised the inter-Korean summit,... adding the agreements reached between the two leaders,... in which the North said it would permanently abolish its key missile facilities with witnesses,... as being "very good news."<br /><br /> "We had very good news from North Korea, South Korea. They met and we had great responses. I got a tremendous letter from Kim Jong Un. As you know it was delivered three days ago. We're making tremendous progress with respect to North Korea." <br /><br /> The U.S. leader also talked about the progress being made with North Korea,... putting an emphasis on the ending of missile and nuclear testing.<br /><br /> "Prior to becoming president, it looked like we were going to war with North Korea and now we have a lot of progress. We've gotten our prisoners back. We are getting our remains back. They continue to come in. A lot of tremendous things, but very importantly no missile testing, no nuclear testing. Now they want to go and put a bid in for the Olympics. Now we have a lot of very good things going." <br /><br /> Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. is prepared to immediately engage in talks with North Korea in the wake of this week's inter-Korean summit.<br />The top U.S. diplomat said in a statement,... that the U.S. congratulates the leaders of the two Koreas on the "successful outcome" of their meeting in Pyeongyang,... and welcomed the North Korean leader's reaffirmation to denuclearize the peninsula.<br /> Pompeo says he has invited his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong-ho,... to meet him in New York next week,... on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly,... where they are both scheduled to be in attendance.<br /> He also said the U.S. has invited Pyeongyang officials to meet the new U.S. special representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun,... in Vienna "at the earliest opportunity."<br />Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News. <br />
