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Pompeo hopes N. Korea's Kim does 'right thing' on nuclear weapons

2019-04-07 10:28:21       source:Asahi

April 6, 2019


WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday he hoped North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would use a meeting of the country's parliament next week to state publicly "it would be the right thing" for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.


North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly is due to hold its first meeting this year on Thursday and could feature the first public comments from Kim about a second summit between him and U.S. President Donald Trump Hanoi in February that collapsed.


"It's something that's an annual event where the leader of North Korea speaks to his people," Pompeo told "CBS This Morning." "We'll watch very closely what he says."


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