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The US government is not seeking a regime change in North Korea, the secretary of state says, amid tensions over Pyongyang\u2019s weapons programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not your enemy,\u201d Rex Tillerson said, adding that the US wanted a dialogue at some point.<\/p>\n
But a Republican senator said President Donald Trump had told him there would be a war with North Korea if its missile programme continued.<\/p>\n
Pyongyang claimed its latest missile could hit the US west coast.<\/p>\n
The second test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday, celebrated by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was the latest to be conducted in defiance of a United Nations ban.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not seek a regime change, we do not seek the collapse of the regime, we do not seek an accelerated reunification of the peninsula, we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th parallel,\u201d said Mr Tillerson, referring to the border between the Koreas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not your enemy, we\u2019re not your threat but you\u2019re presenting an unacceptable threat to us and we have to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n
North Korea\u2019s recent long-range missile tests have deepened concern about the threat Pyongyang poses to the US mainland, and strengthened determination here to prevent any strike. That\u2019s what the president had in mind in his war talk with Senator Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon has updated military options, but at the same time says a confrontation would be catastrophic. In light of that, Mr Tillerson repeated at length that the US wasn\u2019t seeking regime change and said the goal was dialogue, but one not based on the assumption that North Korea could keep its nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
Pyongyang has categorically refused such terms.<\/p>\n
The strategy, said Mr Tillerson, is a sustained campaign of peaceful but intensifying economic pressure to change its mind. But given the advances in ballistic technology demonstrated by the recent ICBM tests, there\u2019s growing doubt that denuclearisation is a realistic possibility.<\/p>\n
As always, there are no good options when it comes to North Korea, but less time to pursue them.<\/p>\n
President Trump has repeatedly criticised China, which shares a land border with North Korea and is its closest economic ally, for not doing enough to stop Pyongyang\u2019s weapons programme.<\/p>\n
However, Mr Tillerson took a more diplomatic approach, saying that \u201conly the North Koreans are to blame for this situation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut,\u201d he added, \u201cwe do believe China has a special and unique relationship, because of this significant economic activity, to influence the North Korean regime in ways that no one else can.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a separate development, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said that Mr Trump told him that there would be a military conflict between the two countries if Pyongyang continued with its aim to develop a missile programme with the US in its range.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be a war with North Korea over their missile programme if they continue to try to hit America with an ICBM.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe [Trump] has told me that, I believe him, and if I were China I would believe him too, and do something about it,\u201d he said in an interview with NBC\u2019s Today programme.<\/p>\n
Mr Graham added: \u201cIf there\u2019s going to be a war\u2026 it will be over there. If thousands die, they\u2019re going to die over there. They\u2019re not going to die here. And he [Trump] has told me that to my face.\u201d<\/p>\n
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