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Pompeo: No end to N. Korea sanctions until 'denuclearization'

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON Pompeo told "Fox News
Associated Press Sunday."
NEW YORK (AP) — Top U.S. "But what we've made
diplomat Mike Pompeo clear is the economic
said Sunday that econom- sanctions — the driving
ic sanctions on North Korea force to achieve the out-
won't be reduced until it come we're looking for —
completes "denucleariza- will not be released. And
tion" after leader Kim Jong the U.N. Security Council
Un offered to close the will not reduce those sanc-
North's main nuclear site in tions, until such time as
exchange for U.S. conces- we've achieved that final
sions. denuclearization," he said.
Kim said last week at a Pompeo has invited his
summit with South Korea's North Korean counterpart
president that he was will- for a meeting on the side-
ing to dismantle the Nyong- lines of the annual gather-
byon nuclear complex in ing of world leaders at the
the presence of outside U.N. this week. Trump, who is
inspectors if the U.S. takes considering a second sum-
unspecified "correspond- mit with Kim, will be meet-
ing measures." He also ing South Korean President
promised to dismantle the Moon Jae-for a debrief on
North's main rocket launch the allied leader's recent
In this July 20, 2018 file photo, U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters at United site. visit to Pyongyang.
Nations headquarters. That has helped revive U.S.- U.S. ambassador to the
Associated Press
North Korea diplomacy U.N., Nikki Haley, told CBS'
that had failed to make "Face the Nation" that
headway since President Trump is not interested in
Donald Trump met Kim "half measures" and wants
in Singapore in June and North Korea to allow in-
won a vague commitment spectors at all its sites to
on denuclearization of verify denuclearization.
the Korean Peninsula. But "I think what President
U.S. administration officials Trump has said is we're not
have yet to signal a readi- going to do any half mea-
ness to provide the kind of sures. We have to make
incentives that Pyongyang sure that we're thorough in
wants. this. There are multiple sites
Pompeo also wouldn't be in North Korea, and we
drawn on whether the U.S need to have inspectors in
would consider a decla- all multiple sites if that's go-
ration on ending the Ko- ing to happen," she said.
rean War that the North North Korea is suspected
has sought as a sign of to have secret sites linked
reduced U.S. "hostility." to its nuclear weapons pro-
The war ceased without a gram in addition to the plu-
peace treaty in 1953. tonium and uranium pro-
"Everybody's got their own duction facilities at Nyong-
idea what a concession byon.
might be. While North Korea has
Some thought it was a halted nuclear and missile
concession for President tests since late last year, it
Trump to go to Singapore. hasn't moved to abandon
I certainly didn't think so; its nuclear arsenal of an es-
President Trump doesn't," timated 40 to 60 bombs.q