Tillerson to chair UN meeting on North Korea nuclear program

The interview comes just days before Trump is scheduled to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Trump made complaints about China’s alleged currency manipulation and exploitation of lax USA trade rules a mainstay of his economically nationalist campaign.

North Korea was delisted as a state sponsor of terrorism in 2008 in an attempt by former U.S. president George W. Bush to negotiate its disarmament. China, he noted, has the most influence over the North economically and politically.

The Korean Central News Agency, Pyongyang’s official organ, published commentary stating, “The US House of Representatives is mulling passing a “bill on escalating sanctions with respect to transactions relating to North Korea” …” China appears to be taking the same path. Zhu Chenghu, a retired major general and dean of China’s National Defense University of the People’s Liberation Army, said that Washington and Beijing can achieve satisfying results from the summit as both sides do not want to leave the situation unattended.

“We can confirm Secretary Tillerson spoke today by telephone to Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi regarding this week’s visit of President Xi and other issues of bilateral and regional importance”, the spokesman said.

Asked what incentive the United States had to offer China, Trump replied: “Trade is the incentive”.

The US House of Representatives has approved a request by the Department of State to put North Korea back on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, after the country was removed from it in 2008.

“We would like to work on North Korea together”, the official said in a briefing for reporters. -China economic relationship, saying that USA companies do not enjoy the same access to China’s vast market as Chinese firms get in the United States.

Regarding trade and tariffs, Trump said he didn’t wish to comment on the topic specifically until having actually met with Xi but did direct accusations at previous US administrations for being clueless in regard to trade with China.

Still, Trump told the Financial Times newspaper that during his meeting with Xi, he doesn’t “want to talk about tariffs yet, perhaps the next time we meet”.

North Korea has been developing and testing its ballistic missile technology, and South Korean intelligence has warned that North Korea could conduct its sixth nuclear bomb test this week to “overshadow” the summit.

Any launch of objects using the ballistic missile technology is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions but the North has defied the ban as infringement of its sovereign rights to self defence and the pursuit of space exploration. “That is really what we’re working toward”.

North Korea often responds to the drills with its own military training and harsh rhetoric. “And they know that”.

He plans to discuss with Xi a new “elevated” and streamlined framework for a U.S.

SHANGHAI ― Rex Tillerson has just finished his East Asia tour as the US secretary of state.

In January, Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, wrote in Foreign Policy that “the whole policy debate has been an absurd carnival of panic, bellicosity and partisanship”, despite the possibility of stalling North Korean missile tests via diplomatic means.