U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is stressing that Washington is making efforts to fix and correct the grave human rights situation in North Korea. <br />He also defended the Trump administration's diplomatic engagement with North Korea to prevent a possible repeat of a case similiar to that of Otto Warmbier. <br />Kim Hyo-sun reports. <br />The Trump administration is exerting efforts to fix and correct North Korea's atrocious record of human rights abuses. <br />That's according to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who stressed during an interview with Atlanta-based Gray Television on Tuesday, that the strategic patience approach taken by the previous Obama administration did not work out. <br />He added there should be no more suffering like the pain Otto Warmbier's family has been forced to endure.<br />The Warmbier case resurfaced in media following President Trump's press conference following the Hanoi summit,... in which he said the North's leader did not know about Warmbier's condition until later. <br />Warmbier, an American college student who was imprisoned by the regime,... died shortly after returning home in a coma in 2017. <br />The top U.S. diplomat also said he's hopeful about future dialogue with North Korea,... despite not being able to reach an agreement in Hanoi. <br /><br />"And so I am hopeful, although I have no commitment yet that we will be back at it -- that I'll have a team in Pyeongyang in the next couple of weeks. I continue to work to find those places where there's a shared interest." <br /><br />Pompeo added that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should make a strategic decision,... explaining the North's current model is not sustainable in the long-run. <br />Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News. <br />
