Secretary of state speaks a day after the president appeared to drop the insistence of ‘all-in-one’ unilateral disarmamentMike Pompeo has said the US will use a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un to demand North Korea completely and rapidly surrenders its nuclear weapons programme before it receives any economic relief.Pompeo added he was “very hopeful” the summit would still go ahead on 12 June, a sentiment echoed by China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi. “If you want to solve the moment, now is the time. If you want peace now is the time. If you want to make history now is the time,” Wang said in Washington. Continue reading…

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/23/north-korea-latest-news-disarm-for-economic-relief-says-pompeo