Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says North Korea is still producing nuclear bomb fuel

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• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said North Korea is continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs in spite of its pledge to denuclearize. 
• During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Pompeo said the country is still producing "fissile material." 
• Pompeo also reiterated that North Korea had agreed to denuclearize, though he did expand on whether Pyongyang agreed with the US definition of denuclearization.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea is continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs in spite of its pledge to denuclearize, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, even as he argued that the Trump administration was making progress in talks with Pyongyang.

Asked at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing whether North Korea was still making bomb fuel, Pompeo responded to Democratic Senator Ed Markey by saying: "Yes, that's correct ... Yes, they continue to produce fissile material."

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