Tillerson expressed the hope that the pressure of China on North Korea
The United States hopes that China will exert pressure on North Korea, said in an interview with the American channel CBS, U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson.
Tillerson noted that the leadership of the United States and China are actively consulted about the “dangerous” situation on the Korean Peninsula. “I think we can work together with China in order to change the mindset of the leadership of the DPRK,” he said.
Earlier it was reported that on 17 September the Secretary of state Rex Tillerson made the military solution to the North Korean problem, if not will be opportunities for peaceful settlement. At the same time, he noted that the aim of Washington is a coalition of “peaceful pressure” on Pyongyang.
On the same day, US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley said that the UN Security Council has “exhausted all possibilities” for peaceful solution, and that Washington “will be happy to pass the question to General Mattis”, which has “a lot of military options,” to resolve the situation.
North Korea conducted missile tests last September 15. Rocket “Hwaseong-12” flew over Japanese territory and fell into the Pacific ocean. Prior to this, September 3, Pyongyang announced the successful test of a hydrogen bomb. The capacity of the tested charge, the experts rated at 250 kilotons of TNT. The blast was triggered by aftershocks of magnitude up to 6, marked by the seismic stations of Russia, China, USA, Japan and South Korea.