Reuters, GENEVA, SwitzerlandThe US yesterday said that in the run-up to US President Donald Trump’s planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, countries should continue to put financial and diplomatic pressure on Pyongyang to surrender its banned nuclear weapons. Pyongyang announced its withdrawal in 2003 from the landmark pact prohibiting the spread of atomic weapons. “The United States remains committed to complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea,” Wood told a news conference. “The president is a sharp dealmaker, people should not underestimate him... “The president will be going in with his eyes wide open, the US is not naive,” he added.

Source: Taipei Times April 19, 2018 15:56 UTC