WASHINGTON – Just days before President Donald Trump is set to meet for a second time with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Secretary of State…
WASHINGTON – Just days before President Donald Trump is set to meet for a second time with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was confronted about a claim the president made after the first summit.
Pompeo, while appearing on CNN Sunday morning, was asked whether North Korea was considered a nuclear threat to the U. S. “Yes,” he told host Jake Tapper.
“But the president said he doesn’t,” Tapper replied.
“That’s not what he said,” Pompeo replied. “I know precisely –”
“He tweeted, ‘There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea,’ ” Tapper said, looking down to read a tweet from the president in June.
Pompeo, shaking his head, said the president was saying there was a lot of progress made that “substantially” lowered the nuclear risk between the U. S. and North Korea after the leaders met last June in Singapore, the first time a North Korean leader and an American president have met.
