Pompeo, in North Korea for denuclearization talks, meets senior official

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks with a senior North Korean official shortly after arriving Friday in Pyongyang in a bid to reach agreement on concrete steps to rid the country of nuclear weapons.At the outset of the talks, Kim Yong Chol, a vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, welcomed Pompeo's third visit to the country, according to a U.S. pool report.Pompeo plans to spend a day and a half in the North for meetings with leader Kim Jong Un and officials to work out specifics, such as a full declaration by Pyongyang of its nuclear weapons and …READ FULL ARTICLE