Anchor: U.S. senators introduced a bipartisan bill calling for greater congressional oversight of the Trump administration's nuclear negotiations with North Korea. The bill states that Washington will pursue the complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement, or CVID, of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, the definition of which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured Pyongyang fully understands. 
Alannah Hill has more. 

Report: Bipartisan legislation has been introduced at the U.S. Congress calling for stringent oversight of any nuclear deal with North Korea. 

Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Gardner introduced the bill Tuesday which, if enacted, would require President Donald Trump to submit a report to Congress within 90 days and every 180 days thereafter on North Korea’s compliance on reaching denuclearization. 

If a nuclear agreement is reached with North Korea, the president would be required to submit it to Congress within five days.

The North Korea Policy Oversight Act of 2018 also stipulates that the U.S. will pursue diplomacy to achieve the complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement, or CVID, of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs and that sanctions should be kept in place until the North takes “meaningful and verifiable” actions toward that goal.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing that he was confident that the North understood Washington’s definition of CVID. 

[Sound bite: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompep]
"The North Koreans understand the scope of the request that we're making with respect to denuclearization, and the elements that would be required in one of those elements obviously it would be a thorough understanding of each of the elements that you laid out…”
“So, we have been pretty unambiguous in our conversations about what we mean when we say complete denuclearization."

The top diplomat also clarified that the U.S. has yet to receive the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War as promised by Pyongyang, but added that he is "optimistic" that they will be repatriated “in the not-too-distant future."
Alannah Hill, KBS World Radio News. 

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