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<p>The Foreign Secretary regularly speaks to his counterparts in the United States
about how to secure a diplomatic solution to the threat posed by North Korea’s illegal
nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, most recently to Secretary of State Pompeo
on 5 March.</p><p> </p><p>We had hoped the talks between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un
in Hanoi, Vietnam, 27-28 February, would prove a basis for progress. However, it was
clear that there is more work to do espeically on the issue of denuclearisation. We
welcome the US commitment to continue negotiations and continue to urge North Korea
to engage in this process. We shall maintain the strict enforcement of all sanctions
until North Korea takes concrete steps towards its complete, verifiable and irreversible
denuclearisation.</p><p> </p>
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