U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said North Korea continues to produce fissile material, during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held in Washington.

In a wide-ranging and sometimes heated three hour session, Pompeo faced questions on various aspects of the current North Korea policy, including the outcomes of the Singapore summit and whether the DPRK remains a threat to the United States.

When asked a series of relatively rapid-fire questions from Senator Ed Markey on why Trump, in a tweet following the summit, had declared North Korea to be no longer a threat, Secretary Pompeo confirmed that the