US has obligation to pursue a diplomatic solution with North Korea: Pompeo

The US has an "obligation" to pursue a diplomatic solution with North Korea and find a peaceful solution so that Americans aren't held at risk by its leader Kim Jong-un and his nuclear arsenal, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today.

The Secretary of State who till last week was the CIA Director had quietly travelled to North Korea early this month and had a meeting with Kim.

"I was there (in North Korea) on a mission. I was aiming to achieve the goals that the president set forward to me, it became clear that I was going to get the chance to meet with Kim Jong-un to discuss some of the details, but most importantly to take a read on whether there was an opportunity here for our two countries to achieve this," Pompeo was quoted as saying by ABC News
"We have got a long history of negotiating with North Korea. Repeatedly, they have taken actions only to find that those promises proved false or unworthy or they were incapable of achieving them. My goal was to try and identify if there was a real opportunity there. I believe there is. Who knows how the ultimate discussions will go, he said