He reiterated on “Fox News Sunday” that Trump's goal was “the complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of North Korea.” Pompeo confirmed when asked by “Face the Nation” that the goal was “total, full, complete” denuclearization. Asked whether that meant “dismantling,” “getting rid of the centrifuges, stopping all enrichment, getting inspectors on the ground,” Pompeo confirmed all of it. But at different points, he also appeared to suggest that a deal might come up shy of making North Korea get rid of all of its current nukes. And he explicitly called for its getting rid of missiles, without saying the same about existing warheads. Pompeo explicitly talks about needing North Korea to “get rid of your [chemical weapons] program and missiles that threaten the world,” but he doesn't say the same thing about getting rid of nukes.

Source: Washington Post May 14, 2018 15:37 UTC