August 2, 2017

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday that the US is not an enemy of North Korea and that "We 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." He also said that China is not to blame for the current North Korean situation. Tillerson's words are in contradiction to the increasingly harsh rhetoric against Pyongyang from US authorities.

On the same day, Republican Senator and a hawk Lindsey Graham told the media that President Donald Trump had told him that he would rather go to war to destroy North Korea than allow it to develop a long-range nuclear-armed missile.

Many Americans would think Tillerson is showing weakness, but we see his statement as the most courageous expression from Washington regarding the Korean Peninsula issue.

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