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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on April 28, 2017, 11:44:16 PM
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April 28, 2017
UNITED NATIONS—The Trump administration tried to unify world leaders behind a tougher approach toward North Korea on Friday, but risked finding itself more isolated amid stiff resistance from China and Russia, which accused the U.S. of ratcheting up tensions.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson convened the session of the United Nation Security Council and called for member states to increase sanctions on Pyongyang and suspend or downgrade diplomatic relations with Kim Jong Un’s regime.
But in the contentious session, Chinese and Russian diplomats sought to shift the blame for the nuclear crisis to Washington. Moscow’s deputy foreign minister accused President Donald Trump of “reckless muscle flexing” by sending more military assets to the Korean Peninsula. “The whole world is seriously wondering if there is going to be a war,” the minister, Gennady Gatilov, told the council.
U.S. officials also feared there could be serious damage to its Asian security alliance after Mr. Trump, in an interview, called for South Korea to pay for the deployment of a U.S.-built missile defense system, Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense, or Thaad, and to renegotiate or scrap the countries’ bilateral trade pact.
Mr. Tillerson tried to calm matters with Seoul during a Friday morning meeting at the U.N. with his South Korean counterpart, according to U.S. officials.
One U.S. administration official said Mr. Trump’s comments on renegotiating the South Korea trade agreement were consistent with his overall strategy of getting better deals for the U.S. government.
China called for unconditional diplomacy and accused the U.S. and South Korea of ratcheting up tensions by expanding military exercises and suggested that both sides had equal responsibility in defusing the situation.
China’s confrontational approach toward the Trump administration at the Security Council fed simmering skepticism in Washington that China is prepared to confront North Korea.
Mr. Trump said repeatedly after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping this month in Florida that he thought Beijing was willing to crack down more forcefully on Pyongyang.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-presses-for-tougher-global-action-on-north-korea-1493393307
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Sec. Rex Tillerson Speech About North Korea At U.N. April 28. 2017
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOULhKAxTQQ[/youtube]
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