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[webfact]

North Korea understands U.S. on 'complete denuclearisation' - Pompeo

By Patricia Zengerle

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo participates in a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and members of congress in the Cabinet Room about immigration at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 20, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday he was confident that North Korea understood the scope of the U.S. desire for complete denuclearisation as the two countries negotiate after President Donald Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

 

"We've been pretty unambiguous in our conversations about what we mean when we say complete denuclearisation," Pompeo told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on funding for the State Department.

 

Trump has drawn some criticism from national security analysts for an agreement that emerged from his June 12 summit with Kim that had few details on how Pyongyang would surrender its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

 

Pompeo said he would be leading the ongoing talks with Pyongyang, but declined to discuss details. "They're watching this hearing," he said.

 

Although Trump said last week that North Korea was in the process of returning the remains of U.S. troops missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War, Pompeo said none had yet been handed over to the United States. He said he was optimistic the United States would begin receiving remains "in the not-too-distant future."

 

Pompeo also said he had seen "a modest amount" of backsliding from China on enforcing sanctions on North Korea.

 

"It is the set case that we have observed China not enforcing control over their cross-border areas as vigorously as they were six or 12 months ago," he said, but said that was in comparison to what had been an all-time high.

 

Pompeo was also questioned about Trump's saying after the summit with Kim that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat, an assertion questioned by analysts and mocked by Democrats.

 

Pompeo defended the statement, saying Trump had reduced the threat, by reducing tensions. "I think his point was a fair one. For the moment, we have reduced risk," Pompeo told the subcommittee.

 

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Additional reporting by Lesley Wroughton and Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Leslie Adler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-28

[IAMHERE]

I suspect North Korea is just going to move their nucs to China a few kilometers from the border. That is why Kim visited with the Chinese a few months back.  

 

[Srikcir]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Pompeo also said he had seen "a modest amount" of backsliding from China on enforcing sanctions on North Korea.

Has he seen North Korea expanding a nuclear research center?

Satellite photos show work continuing at a North Korean nuclear research center, and experts disagree on whether it means the regime is not denuclearizing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/if-north-korea-denuclearizing-why-it-expanding-nuclear-research-center-n887056

Has he seen North Korea resuming producing of plutonium for weapons?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/06/satellite-images-reveal-signs-north-korea-has-resumed-producing/

For that matter how can there be any "backsliding" when Trump declared North Korea not to be a nuclear threat and Kim made no material concessions during and after the summit meeting?

[mrwebb8825]

On 6/28/2018 at 12:35 PM, Srikcir said:

experts disagree on whether it means the regime is not denuclearizing.

you mean real experts, not the "experts we have here or on CNN or MSNBC, right?

[bristolboy]

On 6/28/2018 at 12:35 PM, Srikcir said:

Has he seen North Korea expanding a nuclear research center?

Satellite photos show work continuing at a North Korean nuclear research center, and experts disagree on whether it means the regime is not denuclearizing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/if-north-korea-denuclearizing-why-it-expanding-nuclear-research-center-n887056

Has he seen North Korea resuming producing of plutonium for weapons?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/06/satellite-images-reveal-signs-north-korea-has-resumed-producing/

For that matter how can there be any "backsliding" when Trump declared North Korea not to be a nuclear threat and Kim made no material concessions during and after the summit meeting?

 

1 hour ago, mrwebb8825 said:

you mean real experts, not the "experts we have here or on CNN or MSNBC, right?

North Korea expands missile-making facility, researchers say

https://www.ft.com/content/1894e97e-7d8d-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d

[Opl]

Donald J. Trump

 

✔ @realDonaldTrump

 

 

Many good conversations with North Korea-it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months. All of Asia is thrilled. Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!

1:16 PM - Jul 3, 2018

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[bristolboy]

2 hours ago, Opl said:

Donald J. Trump

 

✔ @realDonaldTrump

 

 

Many good conversations with North Korea-it is going well! In the meantime, no Rocket Launches or Nuclear Testing in 8 months. All of Asia is thrilled. Only the Opposition Party, which includes the Fake News, is complaining. If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!

1:16 PM - Jul 3, 2018

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It does bear a certain, if not exact, resemblance to another famous utterance:

"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts."

Neville Chamberlain 1938