The US is weighing all options, including working with China, to prevent the reclusive North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. It does not seek any regime change in North Korea. This was in response to US Senator’s remarks that there is a military option to destroy North Korea’s programme as well as the country.
Rex Tillerson has said that the Us wants to work with China to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons. He said the US is ready to have a word with North Korea only if the communist party is ready to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The US wants to convey a message to North Korean that they are not their enemies and if North Korean are providing them with an unacceptable threat to which the US will definitely respond.
Tillerson said he hoped that at some point the North Koreans will begin to understand that the US would like to sit and have a dialogue with them about their future that will give them the security they seek and the future economic prosperity for North Korea. Tillerson said the US initiated a sustained and continued intensified campaign on “peaceful pressure” as the country’s available options were “limited”.
If there is a guarantee that there is no future where North Korea holds nuclear weapons or the ability to deliver those nuclear weapons to anyone in the region much less to the homeland then the US will sit and talk with North Korea.
The US will continue to call upon China until they have a productive talk.
In doing so, the Trump Administration has sought to partner with China. China accounts for 90 per cent of economic activity with North Korea and the Chinese have been very clear with the US that they share the same objective of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. They do not see it in their interest for North Korea to have nuclear weapons. China has ways that they can put pressure on and influence the North Korean regime because of this significant economic relationship that no one else has.
US President Donald Trump has been very outspoken about the need to stop North Korea from developing the nuclear programme. He said that he would rather go on a war than to allow North Korea’s nuclear programme to develop. He has accused China of not doing anything about North Korea but he has appreciated Beijing for its attempts to pursue its closest ally to abandon its nuclear ambitions.