MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested on Thursday [5-24-18] new sanctions could be in the works for North Korea, even as he expressed hope the country would return to the negotiating table for direct talks following President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel the summit with Kim Jong Un that had been due to take place next month in Singapore…Pompeo testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just minutes after the White House said Trump was canceling the summit…While Trump was the one to cancel the meeting, he told Kim: ‘If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write.’ Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, suggested to Pompeo that this was ‘an effort here to create alternative facts in which North Korea walked away,’ and questioned the Trump administration’s overall approach to North Korea. Pompeo, who traveled to North Korea and met with Kim Jong Un earlier this month, took issue with that characterization and suggested the North Koreans had been unresponsive in recent days.”
-Laura Koran, “Pompeo raises possibility of new North Korea sanctions,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 24, 2018 4:07 pm