Pompeo says North Korea still poses a nuclear threat despite Trump saying the opposite

"Do you think North Korea remains a nuclear threat?" CNN's Jake Tapper asked Pompeo Sunday on "State of the Union."

"Yes," Pompeo replied.

"But the President said he doesn't," Tapper said.

"That's not what he said ... I know precisely what he said," Pompeo said.

"He tweeted: 'There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea,'" Tapper said.

"What he said was that the efforts that had been made in Singapore -- this commitment that Chairman Kim made -- have substantially taken down the risk to the American people. It's the mission of the Secretary of State and the President of the United States to keep American people secure. We're aiming to achieve that," Pompeo said.

In June, Trump, having just returned to Washington from a historic summit with Kim in Singapore, tweeted, "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea."

In a separate tweet, the President said that North Korea is "no longer" the US' "biggest and most dangerous problem," telling Americans and the rest of the world they can "sleep well tonight!"

This week, Trump is set to meet with Kim for a second summit in Vietnam in which he will likely try to convince Kim to abandon his nuclear program, which remains intact, according to a recent confidential UN report.

A senior administration official told CNN last week that they're not sure if the country has made the decision to denuclearize, "but the reason why we're engaged in this is because we believe there's a possibility that North Korea can make the choice to fully denuclearize."

"And that's why the President has assigned such a priority to engaging with them," the official added.

CNN's Kevin Liptak, Richard Roth, Veronica Stracqualursi and Stephen Collinson contributed to this report.

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