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.
