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Progress with DPRK “far too slow,” Pompeo says after North’s missile launch

Secretary of State says U.S. is still working diligently "to try and get North Korea to denuclearize"

Update at 18:30 EST: This article has been updated to include comments from a former U.S. official.

The United States is working to convince North Korea to denuclearize, but progress has been “far too slow,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday.

Pompeo’s comments, made during a radio interview with a station in his home state of Kansas, came one day after the DPRK tested — and perfected, according to the North’s state-run media — its new multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS).

“What’s the latest on that situation?” the radio host, Rick Everett, asked Pompeo.

“So it would’ve been