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| Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Friday, March 3, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) |
SEOUL — The U.S. should view China and North Korea as “part and parcel of a single entity,” according to former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who says the Biden administration must be more clear-eyed about the links between Chinese and North Korean nuclear weapons programs.
U.S. intelligence officials have expressed increasing alarm at the aggressive expansion of China’s nuclear weapons arsenal and infrastructure in recent years, while North Korea since the beginning of 2022 has stepped up its own schedule of ballistic missile launches and exercises ahead of a widely expected new nuclear weapons test of its own.
“We should think about their nuclear programs as being related,” Mr. Pompeo told The Washington Times, asserting that America and its allies “should hold the Chinese Communist Party responsible for [North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un’s] nuclear behavior as well.”
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