Pompeo adds caveat on US military exercises in South Korea
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises will resume if North Korea stops negotiating in good faith over its nuclear program.
Pompeo is in South Korea a day after President Donald Trump met with Kim Jong Un and announced the U.S. would freeze what he called "war games" with North Korea.
Pompeo says he was there when Trump talked about it with Kim. He says Trump "made very clear" that the condition for the freeze was that good-faith talks continue. He says if the U.S. concludes they no longer are in good faith, the freeze "will no longer be in effect."
Pompeo says Trump was "unambiguous" in conveying that to Kim.