"This is a frontier of freedom", Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday as he visited the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea. Pence is on the first stop of a four-nation Asia tour meant to show America's allies, and remind its adversaries, that the Trump administration is not turning its back on the increasingly volatile region.
"We've seen China begin to take some actions to bring pressure on North Korea but there needs to be more", Pence said. Listen to the full interview below. Asked about US National Security Adviser H R McMaster's comments that North Korea should stop destabilising behaviour and stop developing nuclear weapons, Lu said: "We have taken note of the remarks".
This provided photo shows North Korea's propaganda leaflets found in Samcheok, 290 kilometers east of Seoul, on April 15, 2017, glorifying the reclusive regime's late founder Kim Il-sung.
Kim said the DPRK's policy is shaped by the Trump administration's push for "high intensity sanctions" against the country, deploying tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea and launching military action aimed at "beheading" the North's leadership headed by Kim Jong Un.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking to reporters Monday evening, said he hopes "there will be no unilateral actions like those we saw recently in Syria and that the United States will follow the line that President Trump repeatedly voiced during the election campaign".
Mr. Lu said Beijing wants to resume the multi-party negotiations that ended in stalemate in 2009 and suggested that U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense system in South Korea were damaging its relations with China.
Pence's statements came one day after North Korea's latest missile test failed. A North Korean Foreign Ministry official pointed to the airstrike in Syria as proof that its nuclear weapons are necessary to protect itself from the U.S.
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"Needless to say, diplomatic effort is important to maintain peace", Abe said, according to The Associated Press.
"But the people in North Korea should make no mistake that the United States of America and our allies will see to the security of this region and see to the security of the people of our country".
Mr Pence is visiting South Korea, Japan, Indonesia and Australia on a 10-day Asia tour. He will also aim to reassure allies in South Korea and Japan that the USA will take appropriate steps to defend them against North Korean aggression.
The top Russian diplomat was referring to the recent United States attack on Shayrat Airfield in Syria's Homs Province with a barrage of 59 Tomahawk missiles, fired from two warships in the Mediterranean Sea, which caused some 15 fatalities, including civilians.
"It's time for us to undertake all actions we can, short of a military option, to try to resolve this peacefully", he said on ABC's "This Week" programme.
Last week, a United States aircraft carrier-led strike group set course for the Western Pacific Ocean close to the Korean Peninsula amid growing fears over the North's weapons tests.
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