Pompeo expressed optimism about a path to denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in an interview for the podcast «Intelligence Matters,» ahead of its first-year anniversary as a production of CBS News
The full «Intelligence Matters» interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be available May 1, on iTunes, Spotify and Stitcher. «Intelligence Matters» celebrates its first anniversary as a CBS News production since its relaunch last May. Excerpts of the interview will air on «Red and Blue» on CBSN.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that ongoing nuclear talks with North Korea would be «bumpy» and «challenging» but expressed confidence about ultimately brokering a path to full denuclearization. He also dismissed a recent personal attack from a senior North Korean official — who last week called for a more «mature» interlocutor than Pompeo — as coming from a «mid-level guy.»
«We’ve been down this road a number of times with the North Koreans,» Pompeo said, referring to the talks. The U. S. had made missteps in the past when, Pompeo said, «we handed them a bunch of money in exchange for too little.
