Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the US still sees "a path forward" in its nuclear talks with North Korea, even after Pyongyang's latest round of test launches.
"It's a serious situation for sure and we've known that the path to fully verified denuclearization would be a bumpy and long one," he said on ABC's "This Week."
Pompeo told "This Week" that the rockets fired Saturday were relatively short range, had crossed no international boundary, had landed in waters east of North Korea "and didn't present a threat to the United States or to South Korea or Japan."
On Saturday, Trump had seemed to shrug off the importance of the tests, tweeting that Kim "knows that I am with him & does not want to break his promise to me. Deal will happen."
"We still believe that there's an opportunity to get a negotiated outcome where we get fully verified denuclearization," he said. "We want to get back to the table."
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