The U.S. government on Sunday said it was ready to offer North Korea security guarantees, provided Pyongyang destroys its nuclear arsenal.
"We have to make sure they are safe, for sure," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview with Fox. "This compromise has been pending for 25 years. "No president has ever put the United States in a position on which the North Korean leadership would consider this to be truly feasible."
However, these guarantees will not be given unless the condition of Pyongyang is implemented to proceed with its "complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization", the US Secretary of State reiterated.
Until now, Pyongyang has never agreed to pay this price, considering its nuclear arsenal the means of last resort that guarantees the survival of the regime.
"The long-awaited summit of US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore will provide an opportunity to assess the sincerity of Pyongyang's commitments," Pope said. Kim shares this purpose.
Donald Trump has already welcomed North Korea's announcement on Saturday that its nuclear test site would be destroyed by the end of May, calling it a "very smart gesture". On Sunday, the State Department also stressed the importance of this "landmark".
"We do not want to make concessions on any progress made by North Korea," a State Department spokesman said, adding that "until sanctions are secured, economic sanctions will remain in place."
In this regard, Pompeo said that there will be investments of American groups in North Korea if Pyongyang eliminates its nuclear arsenal. He spoke in support of the US Alliance, but said that maintaining some independence was not the answer. " beef so that the citizens of this country "can eat beef and have healthy lives".
For Pompeo, "there is still a lot of work to be done", and "we have our eyes wide open on the dangers", but "we have a burning hope that President Kim will want to make this strategic change".
For his part, the US president's national security adviser, John Bolton, warned that denuclearization should be completed before the "benefits" of the move begin.
"Nuclear disarmament means" the destruction of nuclear weapons, their dismantling, their relocation to Xook Ridge (the U.S. nuclear research center in Tennessee), the destruction of the uranium plant, "Bolton told ABC television. .
"North Korea has a very broad (armaments) program. "It will not be easy to do that." "All the sites should be revealed, opened for inspections. "I think the dismantling of nuclear weapons will be done by the United States, perhaps with the help of other countries," he added.