According to sources, US President Donald Trump is leading international efforts to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
US ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft offered that assessment as foreign ministers from the G7 group of industrialized nations began meetings in Toronto to discuss global peace and security challenges, with the North Korean nuclear crisis and tensions with Russia taking center stage.
“President Trump is really carrying the water on the North Korea issue. It’s something we’ve also been working closely with Canada on,” Craft said in a statement.
North Korea has pledged to suspend long-range missile tests and close its nuclear test site ahead of a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae In.
Trump is also working on his own landmark meeting with the North Korean leader in the coming weeks, after dispatching CIA Director Mike Pompeo on a secret mission to meet with Kim two weeks ago to set the table. No date has been set, and there is uncertainty about what Trump might be able to accomplish.
Trump has nominated Pompeo to be US secretary of state but Pompeo isn’t in Toronto as his confirmation faces opposition in the Senate. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan is representing the US instead.
The foreign ministers meeting precedes a June summit in Canada of leaders of the G7 countries — the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and Japan.
Source: Associated Press
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