New York Daily News

N. Korean nuke threat OVER! (Not)

- Denis Slattery

President Trump declared on Wednesday there was “no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea” — a dubious claim later tempered by his top diplomat.

Secretary of State Pompeo, in Seoul to debrief South Korean officials on Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, noted “there's a lot of work left to do.”

Pompeo, offering a less enthusiast­ic interpreta­tion and attempting to quell criticism that North Korea didn't make any major concession­s, cautioned that the U.S. would resume “war games” with South Korea if the North stops negotiatin­g in good faith. Trump's sitdown yielded a joint statement with vague promises to work toward a denucleari­zed Korean Peninsula. Earlier Wednesday, North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency said denucleari­zation would be a “step-by-step process” with “simultaneo­us action,” contradict­sing the U.S. refusal to offer sanctions relief before Pyongyang begins dismantlin­g its weapons.

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