U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

N.Korea remains a nuclear threat: Pompeo

June 28, 2018

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told American lawmakers that North Korea remains a nuclear threat, but defended President Donald Trump for tweeting earlier this month that Pyongyang was “no longer” a threat…reports Asian Lite News

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

“I’m confident what (Trump) intended there was, ‘we did reduce the threat’,” Pompeo said during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt about that. We took the tension level down,” CNN quoted the top diplomat as saying.

Pompeo also confirmed North Korea was yet to return the remains of any of the fallen US service members who died in the country during the Korean War, despite Trump saying last week that transfers were under way.

At the hearing, Pompeo fielded dozens of questions about US diplomatic efforts to denuclearise the Korean Peninsula, which culminated in a leaders’ summit earlier this month between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

“I’m not prepared to talk about the details of the discussions that are taking place,” he said,

“I think it would be inappropriate and, frankly, counterproductive to achieving the end state that we’re hoping to achieve.”

Pompeo also affirmed that Trump was willing to walk away from talks with Pyongyang if they go sour and continue the so-called “peaceful pressure” sanctions campaign

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