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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he will pursue diplomatic efforts with North Korea up "until the first bomb drops." Tillerson said the only goal the administration of President Donald Trump has is to "denuclearize the Korean Peninsula." Tillerson also said the US would sit down with North Korea without preconditions. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out what seemed to be a new approach toward North Korea on Tuesday, pledging to continue diplomatic efforts with the rogue state "until the first bomb drops" and stating that he is open to talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without preconditions. "I will continue our diplomatic efforts until the first bomb drops," Tillerson told the audience at an event at the Atlantic Council. During a question and answer session with former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Tillerson said he would be willing to sit down to talk with the North Koreans with no preconditions in or...

North Korea has lambasted US President Donald Trump for recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, renewing its description of him as a “dotard” in a statement released Saturday on state media. Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un have traded threats of war and personal insults in recent months as tensions remain high over the North’s missile and nuclear threats. Now the hermit state has joined near-universal condemnation of the US president’s decision on Jerusalem, calling it a “reckless, wicked act”. “Considering the fact that the mentally deranged dotard openly called for a total destruction of a sovereign state at the UN, this action is not so surprising”, a foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by the state-run KCNA news agency. “But this move clearly shows to the whole world who is the destroyer of world peace and security, pariah and rogue in the international community”, he said, using epithets usually reserved for the North. Trump’s declaration Wed...