rejecting good faith efforts by United States and international negotiators, and leveraging talks to extract concessions such as sanctions relief. (15) The United States Government should continue a campaign of economic pressure and sanctions, counter-proliferation, containment, and deterrence to prevent the regime from further developing, using, or disseminating nuclear or ballistic weapons, technology, and related material until North Korea takes significant, meaningful, and verifiable steps to complete, verifiable, and irreversible de­nu­cle­ar­i­za­tion. (16) On June 13, 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, President Trump has been incredibly clear about the sequencing of de­nu­cle­ar­i­za­tion and relief from the sanctions. We are going to get complete de­nu­cle­ar­i­za­tion