Friday, March 17, 2017

Rex Tillerson Rejects Talks With North Korea on Nuclear Program

SEOUL, South Korea — Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson ruled out on Friday opening any negotiation with North Korea to freeze its nuclear and missile programs and said for the first time that the Trump administration might be forced to take pre-emptive action “if they elevate the threat of their weapons program” to an unacceptable level.

Mr. Tillerson’s comments in Seoul, a day before he travels to Beijing to meet Chinese leaders, explicitly rejected any return to the bargaining table in an effort to buy time by halting North Korea’s accelerating testing program, which the country’s leader, Kim



source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/17/rex-tillerson-rejects-talks-with-north-korea-on-nuclear-program/

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