SANCTIONS STAY UNTIL NUKES GONE: POMPEO

Top U.S. diplomat Mike Pompeo said Sunday that economic sanctions on North Korea won’t be reduced until it completes “denuclearization” after leader Kim Jong Un offered to close the North’s main nuclear site in exchange for U.S. concessions.

Kim said last week at a summit with South Korea’s president that he was willing to dismantle the Nyongbyon nuclear complex in the presence of outside inspectors if the U.S. takes unspecified “corresponding measures.” But U.S. officials have yet to signal a readiness to provide the kind of incentives Pyongyang wants.

Pompeo also wouldn’t say whether the U.S would consider a declaration on ending the Korean War as a sign of reduced U.S. “hostility.”