WASHINGTON: The US has an «obligation» to pursue a diplomatic solution with North Korea, and there is a «real opportunity» for progress, Secretary of State…
WASHINGTON: The US has an «obligation» to pursue a diplomatic solution with North Korea, and there is a «real opportunity» for progress, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
«We have an obligation to engage in diplomatic discourse to try and find a peaceful solution so that Americans aren’t held at risk by Kim Jong Un and his nuclear arsenal,» Pompeo told ABC’s «This Week.»
America’s top diplomat also said he and North Korean leader Kim held in-depth talks about a denuclearization «mechanism» when they met over Easter weekend.
«We talked a great deal about what it might look like, what this complete, verifiable, irreversible mechanism might look like,» Pompeo said, according to a transcript released by ABC.
Pompeo told journalists on Sunday that he believes Kim is looking for «concrete» actions.
«I’m confident that Kim Jong Un is looking for more than a piece of paper,» Pompeo said during a Middle East trip.
US National Security Advisor John Bolton said Libya’s decision to give up its nuclear program through diplomacy was a «model» for efforts to get North Korea to do likewise.
«We have very much in mind the Libya model from 2003,2004,» Bolton told Fox News Sunday when asked if North Korea would have to fully give up its nuclear weapons, fuel and missiles before the US makes concessions.
