Senators Seek More Oversight Of N. Korea Diplomacy

MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press, The Columbian
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 8:42pm

WASHINGTON — Bipartisan legislation introduced Tuesday calls for stringent congressional oversight of U.S. nuclear diplomacy with North Korea and any deal President Donald Trump strikes with Kim Jong Un. It comes two weeks after Trump met Kim at a historic summit in Singapore that yielded a North Korean commitment to the “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula but failed to spell how that goal, which has eluded past U.S.

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