According to reports from CNN today, North Korean officials have warned, in a letter to the United States, that the denuclearization talks are "back in play and could be shattered".
The letter, delivered directly to US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, felt that the trial could stop as "the United States is not yet ready to meet (North Korean) expectations in taking a step forward to sign a peace treaty".
The Korean War of the 1950-1953 ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving, from a technical point of view, the UN forces led by the US, still at war with North Korea. North Korea sees the official end of the state of war as a fundamental condition for reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula. Until North Korea abandons its nuclear weapons program, the United States will be reluctant to put a firm stand on the Korean War.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that US President Donald Trump has canceled the visit of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in North Korea, after the latter received a letter a few hours after the announcement of the trip aggressive tones by a senior North Korean official. According to CNN, the letter mentioned that if no compromise had been reached, North Korea would resume nuclear and missile activities.
By canceling the Secretary of State's trip, Trump publicly acknowledged for the first time that his attempt to persuade North Korea to denuclearize was interrupted by the summit with leader Kim Jong Un, of the 12 last June.
Right from the beginning, US intelligence and defense officials expressed doubts that North Korea could give up nuclear power and that Pompey's on-the-spot trip would bring positive and concrete results.