Pompeo was grilled by reporters about North Korea's nukes. This was his testy response.

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After President Trump met with North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Singapore this week, the two world leaders agreed to "work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."

However, the two leaders did not announce exactly how they would do so; the document they signed, less than 400 words long, had few practical details about how North Korea would actually get rid of its nuclear weapons.

To some observers, this is a major problem. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo does not want to hear the criticism.

Speaking at the Hilton Hotel in Seoul on Wednesday, Pompeo was asked whether North Korea's denuclearization would be "verifiable and irreversible" — a phrase that the secretary himself has used in describing what the United States saw as an acceptable way for North Korea to get rid of its weapons.

Here's how Pompeo responded, according to a State Department transcript:

QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, I wanted to ask you about “verifiable and irreversible.”


SECRETARY POMPEO: Mm-hmm.


QUESTION: You said – the day before you said it’s our only objective, our – it’s clear we want that. It’s not in the statement. Why it’s not in the statement? And the president said it will –


SECRETARY POMPEO: Mm-hmm, it’s in the statement. It’s in the statement. You’re just wrong about that.

QUESTION: How is it in the statement? And I am also –


SECRETARY POMPEO: You’re just – because “complete” encompasses verifiable and irreversible. It just – I suppose we – you could argue semantics, but let me assure you that it’s in the document.

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