U.S. Says It's Encouraged by China's Help Pressing N. Korea
- State Department says other options remain if China bid fails
- Pence, in S. Korea, talks of Trump’s ‘strength and resolve’
Abe Urges China to Take Bigger Role on North Korea
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The U.S. has gotten encouraging signs that China will act to pressure Kim Jong Un’s regime to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, a State Department official said, but the Trump administration is holding on to military action -- alone or with allies -- as an option.
While Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said the U.S. wants to work with China to ease tensions, she declined to say Monday whether the U.S. is closer to acting on its own to counter the threat from North Korea.