Pompeo's visit to Seoul postponed following Trump's COVID-19 infection
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After President Trump contracted COVID-19,... his top diplomat Mike Pompeo has postponed his planned trips to South Korea and Mongolia.
The State Department says Pompeo will instead only travel to Japan this week.
Yoon Jung-min has more.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is travelling to Japan this week, but not South Korea and Mongolia as originally planned.
The State Department said Saturday that when Pompeo goes to Tokyo for the so-called Quad meetings with Japan, Australia and India, he will be focusing on pressing issues in the Indo-Pacific region.
It added that Pompeo plans to reschedule his travel to Asia later this month.
Some, however, doubt whether that'll be feasible considering Trump's health issues and with the presidential election only a few weeks away.
Seoul's foreign ministry said Sunday that it was updated on the changes by Washington in advance and that it hopes to see him in Seoul soon.
Diplomatic sources in Seoul say that while Pompeo postponed his visits to Seoul and Ulaanbaatar, it would have been difficult for him to cancel the Quad meeting in Tokyo because of its urgency and the fact that the meetings are multilateral.
Originally, South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha was to sit down with Pompeo later this week to discuss bilateral and regional issues, as well as issues surrounding the Korean Peninsula.
Seoul and Washington have had a series of diplomatic exchanges recently, amid the stalled denuclearization talks with Pyeongyang.
Last week, Seoul's top nuclear envoy Lee Do-hoon went to the U.S., and the allies' national security advisers spoke on the phone.
Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News.
After President Trump contracted COVID-19,... his top diplomat Mike Pompeo has postponed his planned trips to South Korea and Mongolia.
The State Department says Pompeo will instead only travel to Japan this week.
Yoon Jung-min has more.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is travelling to Japan this week, but not South Korea and Mongolia as originally planned.
The State Department said Saturday that when Pompeo goes to Tokyo for the so-called Quad meetings with Japan, Australia and India, he will be focusing on pressing issues in the Indo-Pacific region.
It added that Pompeo plans to reschedule his travel to Asia later this month.
Some, however, doubt whether that'll be feasible considering Trump's health issues and with the presidential election only a few weeks away.
Seoul's foreign ministry said Sunday that it was updated on the changes by Washington in advance and that it hopes to see him in Seoul soon.
Diplomatic sources in Seoul say that while Pompeo postponed his visits to Seoul and Ulaanbaatar, it would have been difficult for him to cancel the Quad meeting in Tokyo because of its urgency and the fact that the meetings are multilateral.
Originally, South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha was to sit down with Pompeo later this week to discuss bilateral and regional issues, as well as issues surrounding the Korean Peninsula.
Seoul and Washington have had a series of diplomatic exchanges recently, amid the stalled denuclearization talks with Pyeongyang.
Last week, Seoul's top nuclear envoy Lee Do-hoon went to the U.S., and the allies' national security advisers spoke on the phone.
Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News.