Transcript for No concessions to North Korea ahead of summit with Trump: Pompeo

We must maintain America's historic role as a truly global power whose first instinct an overwhelming preference is to use diplomacy to solve global challenges. We're already seeing this in the preparations for our historic meeting with North Korea still scheduled for June 12. We have a generational opportunity resolve a major national security challenge. Our eyes are wide open to the lessons of history. But we're optimistic that we can achieve an outcome that would be quarry of the world. Our posture will not change until we see credible steps taken towards the complete verifiable and irreversible Nikko denuclearization. Of the Korean Peninsula. You're one of the few Americans. Also to have met Kim Jung moon. And I would just ask you for your opinion on this. What are his goals for this negotiation. Many have speculated that one of those goals is just try to split north Koreans south the US and South Korea and our alliance with South Korea. I'll just ask you what do you think his goal is here. So in my cupboard in my conversations with them. We've talked about what our mutual goals are the things that the world demands and that America demands and the things that North Korea wants to see for itself as well. There's places where we still have lots of work to do to find common ground. But he has shared candidly that he understands. That economic growth for his people the well being of its people depends on a strategic shift. We hope he's prepared to make that our our demands have been on ambiguous when I spoke with him I could not have been clear. About the scope of the verification work that would be required all of the elements. That would be necessary in order for America to understand that there had been real denuclearization. It took those on board it over Turkey. Made clear it was important to him. That when that time came when those objectives have been achieved that he would return would receive. Economic help. American the form of private sector businesses knowledge know how from others perhaps. Contributions foreign assistance and the like. And that he won at security assurances from the world. And of the status that sits between south and North Korea. With the eventual goal of being a piece treat those with the objectives we discussed. I'm very hopeful that him present trouble get a chance to elaborate on the thriller in that. Next couple weeks.

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