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Less than two months after a landmark US-North Korea summit in Singapore, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flew back to the city state on Friday and said North Korea's continued work on weapons programmes was inconsistent with its leader's commitment to denuclearise.

Pompeo was asked en route to Singapore about his statement in the US Senate last month that North Korea was continuing to make bomb fuel and reports that North Korea, led by Kim Jong Un, was building new missiles.

"Chairman Kim made a commitment to denuclearise," Pompeo told reporters. "The world demanded that they (North Korea) do so in

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