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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has warned that the United States was still in the “early stages” of applying pressure on Pyongyang, after yet another North Korean missile test in defiance of international sanctions.
The test of what the US military described as a medium-range missile fired from Pukchang, North Korea, was the second this week, and the 10th this year.
The drumbeat of missile tests and persistent fears North Korea may conduct a sixth nuclear test has sent tensions soaring on the Korean peninsula.
In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Tillerson called the latest test “disappointing” and “disturbing,” but he rejected a suggestion it was a sign that the United States’s approach to the challenge posed by North Korea was not working.
Tillerson said that the US was early in the stages of applying the economic pressure as well as the diplomatic pressure to the regime in North Korea.
US President Donald Trump has pointedly warned that no option is off the table in dealing with North Korea, and hesent an aircraft carrier-led strike group to waters off North Korea.