Before the meeting Pompeo tweeted that he was looking forward to the meeting and was committed to the complete.

when Trump announced in an open letter to Kim Jong Un that he had decided to terminate the summit following a provocative statement from the North.who traveled from Washington to see him.

but their first meeting in the U.But there are lingering doubts on whether Kim will ever fully relinquish his nuclear arsenal.That suggests Kim might have chosen to first go to New York because it would make it easier for him to communicate with officials in Pyongyang.

who visited Washington in 2000.North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol arrives at a hotel in New York.

there was debate inside the Trump administration about whether it marked a real turn to belligerence or a feint to see how far Kim Jong Un could push the U.

teams were meeting with North Korean officials in Singapore and in the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting in Pyongyang on May 31.

As we move to adjust to the political situation in the face of U.We welcome the contacts that have been developing in the recent months between North and South Korea.

But his comments Thursday come at a sensitive moment.Video of the beginning of their meeting also showed Lavrov inviting Kim to Moscow.