Article snippet: President State Department and raised questions about what comes next for U.S. foreign policy. But with CIA director Mike Pompeo nominated as his replacement, there are clues about where the administration is heading. Pompeo, however, faces enormous challenges: getting the department's house in order after Tillerson's attempt to "redesign" it that has left top positions vacant and senior diplomats departing, and working for a president who has changed foreign policy with a tweet and sees himself as the most important U.S. diplomat. In Pompeo's favor, and unlike Tillerson, he has a strong relationship with Trump, agrees with him on key issues and after six years in Congress and one at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., he knows the ways of Washington. Here are the most important issues he'll face if the Senate confirms him as Trump's second secretary of state. The Trump administration is hurtling towards two nuclear crises, with North Korea and Iran, and Pompeo will be at the center of both. After disparaging talks and warning that North Korea could not be trusted, Trump reversed course last Thursday and accepted an invitation to meet with Kim Jong Un, extended by the South Korean delegation that had visited the dictator days earlier. "North Korea is going to go very well and promised they wouldn't be shooting off missiles in the meantime, and they're looking to denuke, and that would be great," the president told reporters at the White House Sa... Link to the full article to read more