Sorry, but only one thing will work: Trump on North Korea
BY Agencies8 Oct 2017 10:09 PM IST
Agencies8 Oct 2017 10:09 PM IST
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said "only one thing will work" with North Korea after past talks with Pyongyang had yielded no results.
"Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid," Trump tweeted on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported.
"...Hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, making fools of US negotiators," Trump wrote. "Sorry, but only one thing will work!"
Trump did not make clear to what he was referring to in his tweets.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders later confirmed to media that all options are still on the table and she had nothing further to add at this time.
Tensions ran high on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3.
In response, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a new resolution tightening sanctions against Pyongyang.
Later, North Korea tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile which flew over Japan.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed during a visit to China in late September that the US has direct channels of communication with North Korea.
"We have lines of communications to Pyongyang. We're not in a dark situation or a blackout. We have a couple of direct channels to Pyongyang. We can talk to them ... We've made it clear that we hope to resolve this through talks," Tillerson said.
Kim Jong-un praises nuclear programme, promotes sister to centre of power
Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his nuclear weapons are a "powerful deterrent" which guarantee North Korea's sovereignty, state media reported on Sunday, hours after US President Donald Trump said "only one thing will work" in dealing with the isolated country.
Trump did not make clear to what he was referring, but his comments seemed to be a further suggestion that military action was on his mind.
In a speech to a meeting of the p owerful Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party on Saturday, a day before Trump's most recent comments, state media said Kim had addressed the "complicated international situation". The meeting also handled some personnel changes inside North Korea's secretive and opaque ruling centre of power, state media said. Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, was made an alternate member of the politburo – the top decision-making body over which Kim Jong Un presides.
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