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Tillerson stresses regional cooperation to curb North Korea's weapons programs
Tillerson stresses regional cooperation to curb North Korea's weapons programs
The United States will work with Japan and South Korea to try to stop North Korea from advancing its nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday at the start of his first official trip abroad.
washingtonpost.com




This is why you dont put someone with no diplomacy experience as Secretary of State. But this may be why Trump wants to cut the state department funding and eliminate programs meant to prevent war while expanding the military.
Eh, I don't know. I doubt a career foreign service officer could do much better. I think he's right that the last 20 years of diplomacy haven't done much to de-escalate the situation. If anything, things have gotten worse. I hope they consider other diplomatic options and don't immediately jump to military action. But it's clear that new thinking is required.