N. Korean nuke threat OVER! (Not)
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.