World · 4 d ago
US, South Korea and Japan call for North Korea's complete denuclearization
Their top diplomats, meeting on the sidelines of the G20 in Atlanta, reaffirmed their "resolute commitment to the complete denuclearization" of North Korea, the US State Department said.
The pledge
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi also pledged "full implementation" of UN Security Council resolutions, including a ban on revenue for North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
Background
President Donald Trump has played down concerns about the programs and wants to meet Kim Jong Un again, possibly at next month's APEC summit in China.
Jan Engelhardt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
North Korea has enshrined its status as a nuclear-armed state in law and calls its arsenal permanent and irreversible.
