Tokyo – On Tuesday, US diplomats and Japanese diplomats agreed to maximize pressure on North Korea in order to resolve tension in relation to their nuclear program, referring to the need to be prepared for the worst if diplomacy does not pass.
The Deputy State Secretary of the United States John Sullivan, having met his Japanese colleague, Shinsuk -Sugiyama, told reporters that there is still diplomacy in the State Department to solve the problem and ultimately denominate the Korean peninsula.
“However, we must, however, with our allies in Japan, South Korea and in other places to be prepared for the worse if diplomacy failed,” he said. The United States should be ready to protect itself and its allies, he said.
SUGIYAMA, reporting journalists separately, confirmed Japan's support in President Donald Trump’s policy to keep all the options open, but emphasized the need for diplomatic decision, supporting cooperation between Japan, the USA and South Korea, as well as through cooperation with China and Russia.
Two diplomats will join their South Korean colleague in Seoul for further negotiations on Wednesday for North Korea.
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Negotiations take place when joint military exercises of the United States and South Korea are held this week. They regularly carry out joint exercises, although North Korea condemns them as a rehearsal of invasion.
The UN Deputy Veeter of North Korea warned Monday on Monday that the situation on the peninsula “reached a point with touch and move, and a nuclear war could break any moment.”
Kim in the district in the district told the UN General Assembly Committee that North Korea was subjected to direct nuclear threat from the United States and has the right to own nuclear weapons in relation to self -defense.
He pointed to military exercises and what he called the US plan in order to put a “secret operation aimed at removing our top leadership.”
Kim is followed by increasingly tough UN sanctions. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country reduces economic, scientific and other ties with North Korea in accordance with the UN sanctions, and the European Union also announced new sanctions.
