Pompeo vowed that the US will not let the current slow pace of Pyongyang’s progress towards denuclearisation ‘drag out for no end’
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un needs to follow through the denuclearisation commitments he made during the US-North Korea summit in Singapore last month.
Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the US would not let Pyongyang’s progress towards denuclearisation – which is already slow – “drag out for no end”.
The US state secretary urged “every single nation” to remain on the maximum pressure campaign through the United Nations’ sanctions against North Korea.
In the meeting, Pompeo also said that he had personally warned top Russian officials that there will be a “severe consequence” for any interference in upcoming US elections or the American democratic process.
