US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right), and Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Central Committee, arrive for a lunch at the Park Hwa Guest House in Pyongyang, July 7, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Central Committee. The two are expected to discuss making progress on all four pillars of the Singapore Summit joint statement, said the department spokesperson Heather Nauert in a statement. Pompeo himself revealed in a Sunday interview that he expected some real progress in talks with Kim, including an effort to make sure that the summit between the two leaders can take place. The top US diplomat said last week in another interview that Washington had the intention of having the leaders of the two sides getting together before too long, hopefully early in the next year. Pompeo described the planned second meeting between US President Donald Trump and DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un as a chance of making a substantial breakthrough in the denuclearization on the Korean peninsula. The first-ever DPRK-US summit was held in Singapore on June 12. According to a joint statement signed by Trump and Kim, the United States would provide a security guarantee to the DPRK in return for Pyongyang's commitment to denuclearization. Following the leaders' meeting, the US-DPRK talks were once stuck in an impasse due to differences over the scale of denuclearization, US sanctions, and whether to issue a war-ending declaration. custom braceletsdual-layer-wristbandevent wristbandsdebossed-wristbandembossed-wristband
QINGDAO -- A Chinese navy flotilla returned to Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on Sunday after completing its mission of escorting civilian vessels in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somali.The 30th escort squad of the Chinese Navy, comprised of missile frigates Wuhu and Handan and supply ship Dongpinghu, escorted 59 Chinese and foreign ships during the mission. The fleet set sail from Qingdao on Aug 6, 2018, the People's Liberation Army Navy said in a statement.The fleet also participated in the naval parade marking the 60th anniversary of Tunisian Navy. And it visited Cambodia and the Philippines toward the end of its 175-day mission.China sent its first convoy fleet to Somali waters in December 2008.
