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17:24 GMT
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (KUNA) -- US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the US will continue its "peaceful pressure campaign" to bring North Korea to the negotiating table.
"We're going to continue our peaceful pressure campaign working with allies, working with China as well to see if we can bring the regime in Pyongyang to the negotiating table," Tillerson told Fox News Sunday.
He added "we continue to want the Kim (North Korea's leader) regime to understand there is a different path he can choose."
The US top diplomat stressed "there is a unified international voice echoing our message that no one wants to see a nuclearized Korean peninsula, so we're all unified in our message to see a denuclearized Korean peninsula."
"We hope for the opportunity to engage with them as to how we might achieve that," he remarked.
On Pyongyang's recent launch of three short-range ballistic missiles, Tillerson affirmed "we do view it as a provocative act- a provocative act against the United States and its allies."
He added that the North Korea regime was "clearly" sending a message "that they are not prepared to completely back away from their position." (end)
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