U.S. Admits New Strategy Needed to Stop N. Korea Nuclear Program
- Tillerson will look at new options on a visit to the region
- State Department brushes off talk of suspending defense drills
China Aims to Diffuse Tensions Over North Korea
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Acknowledging that U.S. efforts to curtail North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have failed, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will use a trip to Asia next week to look at new ways of approaching a problem that has vexed American presidents since Bill Clinton.
"All of the efforts we have taken thus far to attempt to persuade North Korea to engage in meaningful negotiations have fallen short, to be honest,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters in Washington Wednesday. “So we need to look at new ways to convince them, to persuade them, that it’s in their interests.”