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.
