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USA Defense Secretary Mattis stresses that diplomacy, not war, is the answer to the North Korea nuclear crisis

Pentagon Chief Mattis Stresses Diplomacy in North Korea Crisis, NBC News , by ASSOCIATED PRESS, 27 Oct 17 PANMUNJOM, Korea — On his first visit to the tense but eerily quiet frontier between North and South Korea as U.S. secretary of defense, Jim Mattis conveyed the message he hopes will win the day: Diplomacy is the answer to ending the nuclear crisis with the North, not war.

He made the point over and over — at the Panmunjom “truce village” where North literally meets South; at a military observation post inside the Demilitarized Zone, and in off-the cuff comments to U.S. and South Korean troops……https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/defense-secretary-mattis-accuses-north-korea-threatening-catastrophe-n814876?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%2010.27.17&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20

October 28, 2017 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, USA