{"id":359378,"date":"2018-05-02T17:26:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-n-korea-must-dismantle-weapons-program-pompeo\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T17:26:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:26:23","slug":"presstv-n-korea-must-dismantle-weapons-program-pompeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-n-korea-must-dismantle-weapons-program-pompeo\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-N Korea must dismantle weapons program: Pompeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>North Korea must commit to immediately dismantling its weapons program, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has demanded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At his swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday at the State Department&#8217;s headquarters in Washington, DC, the former CIA chief said that efforts to denuclearize North Korea were still in the &#8220;beginning stages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are committed to the permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling of North Korea&#8217;s weapons of mass destruction program and to do so without delay,&#8221; Pompeo said.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un last month agreed for a meeting with US President Donald Trump after Pompeo met with Kim secretively in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Kim and the South Korean President Moon Jae-in signed a joint declaration on Friday agreeing to work for the &#8220;complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula&#8221; following their historic summit.<\/p>\n<p>During their first summit in more than a decade, the two leaders stated that they would seek an agreement to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/05\/02\/560438\/North-Korea-must-dismantle-weapons-program-US-secretary-of-state\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea must commit to immediately dismantling its weapons program, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has demanded. At his swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday at the State Department&#8217;s headquarters in Washington, DC, the former CIA chief said that efforts to denuclearize North Korea were still in the &#8220;beginning stages.\u201d &#8220;We are committed to the permanent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}