U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview aired on Sunday that he told North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that he will have to agree to take "irreversible" steps toward shutting his nuclear weapons program in any deal with U.S. President Donald Trump. "We use the word 'irreversible' with great intention," Pompeo told ABC News. Kim expressed his readiness to discuss Trump's demand "and to lay out a map that will help us achieve that objective," Pompeo said. And he noted that previous North Korean promises "proved false or unworthy or they were incapable of keeping them." He repeated that Trump will maintain a "pressure campaign" of harsh sanctions on impoverished North Korea until Kim shutters his nuclear weapons program.

Source: CBC News April 29, 2018 16:13 UTC