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\"QUESTION: <\/strong>All right, again, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is with us here on NewsRadio 740, KTRH. Obviously the President met not that long ago with Kim Jong-un in an attempt to try to move things a little bit forward in our dealings with North Korea. There\u2019s been all sorts of reports about whether or not the North Koreans are restarting up some of their nuclear program. Is there anything you can tell us about that and bring us up to date on that story?<\/p>\n SECRETARY POMPEO: <\/strong>So the most important thing, I think, for folks to know is that the progress that we\u2019ve made with North Korea over the past \u2013 goodness, year and change \u2013 has been real. They haven\u2019t conducted any further missile tests, no more nuclear testing, two important tools for advancing their program. I was with the President in Hanoi. We didn\u2019t make as much progress as we would\u2019ve hoped achieving what Chairman Kim told us he would do. I\u2019ve been with Chairman Kim I think now four or five times. He has promised to denuclearize. He did not arrive there prepared to do as much as we need him to do, and we\u2019re going to continue to work to achieve that outcome. It is a real threat to the United States of America and we want to get North Korea to honor its commitment to denuclearize, and then there can be a brighter future for the North Korean people as well.<\/p>\n QUESTION: <\/strong>Stopping the war exercises or the naval exercises with South Korea, good idea you think?<\/p>\n SECRETARY POMPEO: <\/strong>The Department of Defense is confident it can maintain the readiness it needs to take whatever action it might need to take at some point to work with our allies, Japan and South Korea, and to keep the American people safe. President concluded that this made sense as we\u2019re trying to develop a relationship with the North Koreans such that we can get this ultimate objective, something that frankly America has been trying to do for decades now without success. He concluded it made sense and I\u2019m confident we can still protect American interests while reducing the number of major war games that take place there on the peninsula.\"<\/p>",
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