US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday he was “still in charge of the team” negotiating with North Korea over its nuclear program after Pyongyang demanded he be removed from the talks. “Nothing has changed,” Pompeo told a news conference after a meeting with Japan’s foreign and defense ministers. “We continue to work.”“Still in charge of the team,” he said. North Korea this week demanded that Pompeo be excluded from future talks after he apparently encouraged President Donald Trump to stand firm during a summit in Hanoi with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “I’m convinced we’ll still have a real opportunity to achieve that outcome and our diplomatic team will continue to remain in the lead,” he said.

Source: The Guardian April 19, 2019 15:33 UTC