TOKYO — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued a blistering attack
on two decades of bipartisan attempts to deter North Korea's nuclear
program, saying the Trump administration will have a new approach.
"The diplomatic and other efforts of the past
20 years to bring North Korea to a point of de-nuclearization have
failed. So we have 20 years of failed approach," Donald Trump's top
diplomat said during a visit to Japan on Thursday. "And that includes a
period in which the U.S. provided $1.35 billion in assistance to North
Korea as an encouragement to take a different pathway."
Tillerson was speaking at a joint press
conference with Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida in Tokyo after the
two discussed how to deal with the growing threat from Pyongyang. North
Korea has conducted two nuclear tests and 24 ballistic missile tests in
just the last year, including four last week that landed in the sea off Japan.
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