U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday indicated that Washington could leave room in its sanctions regime to help the diplomatic process with North Korea.

Speaking at a U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing covering the review of the State Department’s 2020 budget request, Pompeo indicated he wanted some discretion on implementing U.S. sanctions.

“I want to leave a little space there. From time to time, there are particular provisions that if we were making substantial progress that one might think that was the right thing to do to achieve. Sometimes it’s visas. I want to leave a