Another meeting postponed.

By this point, everyone in the United States knows just how rocky and unstable our relations with North Korea are. Earlier this year, President Trump and Kim Jong Un had a summit to discuss the details of North Korea's plan to denuclearize. While that meeting was promising, our relations continue to be strained. These meetings between top officials do not work out all the details in a single session; they need to be spread out.

This coming Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was scheduled to meet with a top aide of Kim Jong Un's. However today(November 7th) the meeting was cancelled. Now, one might conclude that it was Kim's decision to cancel; however it was the US's decision to cancel. A reason given in the CNN article was due to the midterm elections.

 https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/north-korea-pompeo-meeting-intl/index.html

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