Pompeo says American companies could invest in North Korea if Kim Jong Un meets US demands
- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday the US would be interested in American private sector investment in the country if they comply with President Donald Trump's demands for denuclearization.
- Pompeo told Fox News Sunday Americans would invest in North Korean infrastructure and agriculture, so North Koreans could "eat meat and have healthy lives".
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that if North Korea agrees to fully dismantle its nuclear weapons program, then the United States will allow the American private sector to invest in the country.
"This will be ... private sector Americans ... coming in to help build out the energy grid that needs enormous amounts of electricity in North Korea," Pompeo said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
He added that Americans will also help invest in North Korean infrastructure and agriculture to help feed its people if the country meets US demands.
"All the things the North Korean people need the capacity for American agriculture to support North Korea so they can eat meat and have healthy lives," Pompeo said. "Those are the things that if we get what the president has demanded, the complete, verifiable, irreversible de-nuclearization of North Korea, that the American people will offer in spades."
Pompeo recently said North Korea would be "brimming with prosperity" if it gave up its nuclear weapons soon, ahead of a historic summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.