U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday outlined the United States’ plans to help the development of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) if the country agrees to complete denuclearization.

Pompeo said Friday that the United States and South Korea are ready to help the DPRK achieve prosperity if it takes “bold” action in denuclearization.

In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, Pompeo elaborated on the plan, which deals with economic and security issues.

“What Chairman Kim Jong Un will get from America is our finest — our entrepreneurs, our risk-takers, our capital providers,” he said.

The DPRK “is desperately in need of energy support, electricity for their people. They are — they’re in great need of agricultural equipment and technology, the finest from the Midwest that I come from. We can deliver that.”

Excluding the possibility of U.S. economic aid to Pyongyang, the top diplomat said “American know-how, knowledge, entrepreneurs, and risk-takers” will work alongside the DPRK people “to create a robust economy for their people.”

He admitted that the aforementioned measures that allow U.S. companies to invest directly in the DPRK are sanctions relief. “If we get denuclearization, of course, there will be sanctions relief.”

Also on Sunday, Pompeo told Fox News in a separate interview, “Now, the task is for President Donald Trump and Kim to meet to validate the process by which this would go forward, to set up those markers so that we can negotiate this outcome.”

On Fox, Pompeo also said the topic of “security assurances” to Pyongyang would surely be put on the table.

(Xinhua)