Washington's goal "is not war" as it seeks to ease high military tension with Pyongyang, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Friday, standing at the heavily-fortified border between the two Koreas. Current top breaking Philippine headlines regarding the nation, world, metro manila, regions…
Washington’s goal « is not war » as it seeks to ease high military tension with Pyongyang, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Friday, standing at the heavily-fortified border between the two Koreas. Tension has flared on the Korean peninsula as US President Donald Trump and the North’s ruler Kim Jong-Un have traded threats of war and personal insults that sparked global alarm. But Mattis, who visited the tense Demilitarised Zone during a trip to South Korea, said the US was committed to a « diplomatic solution ». « As the US Secretary of State Tillerson made clear, our goal is not war but rather the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, » he said in the truce village of Panmunjom. Mattis also stressed he and his South Korean counterpart Song Young-Moo had « made clear our mutual commitment to a diplomatic solution to address North Korea’s reckless, outlaw behavior ».
