Does North Korea really want the Trump summit? Pompeo just set the terms to find out.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaned on a top North Korean official Wednesday for Pyongyang to show plans for nuclear disarmament so that the hyped summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un may go ahead, according to reports.

As Pompeo left a 90-minute sit-down in Manhattan, he described the meeting as ”great,” later tweeting: “Good working dinner with Kim Yong Chol in New York tonight. Steak, corn, and cheese on the menu.”

A State Department official earlier said the U.S. wants details for the “complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula. In return the official said the U.S. had offered “the security guarantees” North Korea feels its needs.

Pompeo and Kim will hold two further rounds of talks Thursday to get the summit — scheduled for just 13 days time — back on track, a week after Trump abruptly canceled it in a letter to Kim Jong Un.

Pompeo’s steak feast wasn’t the only diplomatic push for the summit to go ahead. Hours later and some 6,800 miles away in Pyongyang, Russia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov met with Kim Jong Un, before holding talks with his counterpart Ri Yong Ho.

Speaking about the possibility of denuclearization, Lavrov said nothing was going to happen until the West decided to lift some of the sanctions in place against the North Korean regime.

“This is absolutely clear that starting this discussion about solving the Korean Peninsula’s nuclear problem, we believe that it cannot be full until sanctions are removed," Lavrov said, according to the Tass news agency.

Further diplomatic efforts were underway between U.S. and North Korean officials in Singapore and at the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Peninsula, where representatives discussed the logistics and security arrangements for the summit.

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The timeline for getting everything in place is incredibly tight, but there remains huge interest beyond the main players that the meeting goes ahead, with Japan, China and South Korea all voicing their opinion in recent weeks.

Everyone seems fixated on the meeting. Except Trump himself, has has been preoccupied with another Kim meeting, continuing his attack on Robert Mueller’s investigation, and claiming ABC canning “Roseanne” over a racist tweet was really all about him.

Cover image: Kim Yong Chol, Vice Chairman of North Korea, leaves Corinthian Condominiums following a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on May 30, 2018 in New York. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)