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General Category => World News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 08, 2017, 03:30:35 pm
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Administration Slaps Down Chinese Protests, Hints at Tougher Response to N. Korean Provocations
(CNSNews.com) – China responded testily to the unfolding deployment in South Korea of a U.S.-supplied missile defense system, but the Trump administration pushed back Tuesday, calling the shield a defensive measure against the North Korean threat and hinting that new options against the Stalinist regime may go beyond sanctions.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is heading to Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo next week “to try to generate a new approach to North Korea,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told a briefing Tuesday, a day after North Korea fired four ballistic missiles [1] into the sea off Japan.
Asked whether that new approach would go beyond sanctions, Toner said while enforcing sanctions was the focus right now, “we’re looking at other possibilities as well.”
Source URL: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/administration-slaps-down-chinese-protests-hints-tougher-response-n
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Wasn't N. Korea one of Imam Obama's JV teams? :whistle: