Pompeo Distorts China’s Nuclear Policy

CIA Director Mike Pompeo misrepresented the facts when he suggested the Trump administration was responsible for changing China’s policy on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Pompeo said that “the Chinese now … believe the correct answer has to be a denuclearized peninsula.” In fact, China has supported “the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” since at least 2005.

Pompeo, a former Republican congressman who was  CIA director by President Donald Trump,.” He praised Trump and top administration officials for their handling of the issue, singling out Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.