Foreign ministers from 20 countries are meeting in Vancouver today to discuss ways to promote a peaceful resolution to the North Korea crisis.
Foreign ministers from 20 countries are meeting in Vancouver today to discuss ways to promote a peaceful resolution to the North Korea crisis.
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her U. S. counterpart, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, are co-hosting the one-day gathering.
Freeland, Tillerson and the Korean and Japanese foreign ministers will kick off the summit with opening remarks at 11:30 a.m. ET. CBC News will carry them live.
The co-hosts will answer reporters’ questions at the end of the summit at 8 p.m. ET.
A government source speaking on background, said ministers will focus on alternate paths forward, amid the rapidly changing situation and to find ways to tone down the escalating — “my nuclear button is bigger than your nuclear button” — rhetoric.
“Canada is really prepared to do everything we can to work toward a peaceful diplomatic solution,” Freeland said ahead of the meeting.
U. S. State Department officials also said they want to discuss whether to intercept ships headed in and out of North Korea.
