Unic Press UK: United States president Donald Trump is of the view that talking to the North Korean government is “not the answer.” He said this in a tweet.
The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2017
Donald Trump’s statement is, arguably, not one the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who had insisted on peaceful pressure agrees with. In a remark during an interview Sunday, the 27th August 2017, with Fox News, Tillerson said:
“Clearly they are messaging to us as well that they are not prepared to completely back away from their position. Having said that, we are going to continue our peaceful pressure campaign as I have described it, working with allies, working with China as well to see if we can bring the regime in Pyongyang to the negotiating table, with a view to begin a dialogue on a different future for the Korean Peninsula”
The North Korean government recently threatened to make “an enveloping fire in the areas around Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 in order to contain the U.S. major military bases on Guam”, in response to what the communist state described as a series of U.S. aggression, viz:
- Test-firing ICBM Minuteman-3 at its Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- Mobilizing the nuclear strategic bombers currently stationed at its Anderson Air Force Base on Guam in the Pacific.
- Staging a mock nuclear strike drill targeting the strategic resources of North Korea.
On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council issued a statement [‘Security Council Presidential Statement Strongly Condemns Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Conducting Ballistic Missile Launch over Japan’] condemning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) over a ballistic missile launch, which flew over Japan on 28 August 2017, describing the missile launch by the communist state as “outrageous actions”.
