U.S. making efforts to fix and correct human rights abuse in N. Korea: Pompeo
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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.
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.
Kim Hyo-sun reports.
The Trump administration is exerting efforts to fix and correct North Korea's atrocious record of human rights abuses.
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.
He added there should be no more suffering like the pain Otto Warmbier's family has been forced to endure.
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.
Warmbier, an American college student who was imprisoned by the regime,... died shortly after returning home in a coma in 2017.
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.
"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."
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.
Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.
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.
Kim Hyo-sun reports.
The Trump administration is exerting efforts to fix and correct North Korea's atrocious record of human rights abuses.
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.
He added there should be no more suffering like the pain Otto Warmbier's family has been forced to endure.
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.
Warmbier, an American college student who was imprisoned by the regime,... died shortly after returning home in a coma in 2017.
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.
"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."
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.
Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.