N. Korea: Trump taking dangerous step to nuclear war by seeking naval blockade
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson previously mentioned the "right to interdict maritime traffic transporting goods" to and from the North, following Pyongyang's latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test


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Trump just shut down Tillerson’s attempt to talk with North Korea — again
Embattled Secretary of State Rex Tillerson can’t seem to catch a break.

After months of having his diplomatic efforts and credibility contradicted and undermined time and again by President Donald Trump — the man whose views Tillerson is ostensibly supposed to represent — Tillerson is now being contradicted by his own State Department.

On Tuesday, Tillerson announced what seemed to be a new policy toward North Korea. Speaking at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, DC, Tillerson stated that the US would be willing to start diplomatic talks with North Korea without preconditions.
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