North Korea rebuffed Mike Pompeo request to hand over nuclear bombs: Report

North Korea has refused to relinquish a substantial portion of it nuclear weapons despite repeated requests from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to a new report.

Pompeo pitched dictator Kim Jong Un’s regime on “hand[ing] over 60 to 70 percent of its nuclear warheads within six to eight months,” per Vox, but North Korean officials rebuffed the idea. Pompeo’s proposal is reminiscent of a South Korean hope that Kim would make “a big down payment” on denuclearization at the Singapore summit, which didn’t happen.