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North Korea state media hits out at 'imbecile' Biden
Joe Biden has been on the campaign trail since announcing last month his candidacy for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2020 presidential election.
The launch would be North Korea's first such action in more than a year as it seeks to up pressure on Washington with nuclear talks deadlocked.
Kim's private armoured train arrived Wednesday in the Russian border town of Khasan, Russian media reports said, where he was welcomed with bread and salt in a traditional gesture.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said that Trump would again meet the North Korean leader "near the end of February" at a location to be announced later.
North Korean women caught fleeing the country to China or who are repatriated from its neighbour face severe punishment including torture, imprisonment and sexual abuse, the report said.
In Pompeo’s last trip to Pyongyang in July, North Korea denounced him for making “gangster-like demands.” Pompeo did not meet Kim on that trip.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “reconfirmed his determination to completely denuclearise” the Korean peninsula.
Trump’s statement came a day after his defense secretary hinted that the drills, which North Korea denounces as rehearsals for invasion, could resume.
More than 57,000 South Korean survivors have registered for a brief family reunion, which lasts only 11 hours and often ends in painful farewells.
A spokesman for South Korea’s presidential Blue House said on Sunday officials hoped such details would be decided at Monday’s talks.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Trump had received a letter from Kim on Wednesday and had responded with a note that should be delivered shortly.
According to the US official who spoke to Reuters, one photo showed a truck and covered trailer similar to those the North has used to move its ICBMs.
A White House statement earlier said: “We are encouraged by North Korea’s actions and the momentum for positive change.”
The State Department said Pompeo would head on Saturday from Pyongyang to Tokyo, where he would discuss North Korean denuclearisation with Japanese and South Korean leaders.
Pompeo was also questioned about Trump’s saying after the summit with Kim that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat, an assertion questioned by analysts and mocked by Democrats.
Pompeo told reporters on a visit to Seoul earlier this month he would take the lead role in driving the North Korea negotiation process forward following the summit.
Past reunions, some televised, have often unleashed floods of tears, with face-to-face encounters ending in painful separations. The last reunions were held in 2015.
Incompetent central planning and the elimination of markets has led to a GDP per capita of less than $2,000, among the lowest in the world.
Trump and Kim promised in a joint statement to work toward the “denuclearisation” of the Korean Peninsula, and the United States promised its Cold War foe security guarantees.