Pompeo: N. Korea Not Keeping Nuclear Promise

'Still a ways to go,' he says
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Aug 3, 2018 6:07 AM CDT
Pompeo: N. Korea Far From Keeping Its Promise
Pompeo exits his plane as he arrives at the military airport in Subang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018.   (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says North Korea is far from living up to its pledge to denuclearize and remains in violation of numerous UN Security Council resolutions. Speaking Friday before he attends an Asian security forum with North Korea's foreign minister, Pompeo told reporters in Singapore there was "still a ways to go" before achieving the goal of ridding the North of its nuclear weapons. Pompeo's comments came after the White House announced Thursday that President Trump received a new letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and responded quickly with a letter of his own.

The correspondence came amid fresh concerns over Pyongyang's commitment to denuclearization despite a rosy picture of progress painted by Trump, the AP reports. "Chairman Kim made a commitment to denuclearize," Pompeo told reporters accompanying him to Singapore. "The world demanded that (he) do so in the UN Security Council resolutions. To the extent they are behaving in a manner inconsistent with that, they are in violation of one or both the UN Security Council resolutions, we can see we still have a ways to go to achieve the ultimate outcome we're looking for." (Intelligence officials reportedly suspect that North Korea is continuing to build new missiles.)

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