Rex Tillerson Rejects Talks With North Korea on Nuclear Program

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It is also, possibly, the most logical and necessary first step toward an overall agreement between the U.
S.
and North Korea.
During Mr.
Tillerson?s stops in South Korea and Japan, there was no public talk of that demand.
But the risk that North Korea will cheat or hide facilities during a negotiated freeze is great.
?William J.
Perry, who was secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton, said in Beijing on Friday that the Trump administration would have to offer North Korea security assurances if it wanted to escape an increasingly dangerous spiral of confrontation.
Previous administrations had mistakenly based their policies on the assumption that North Korea would collapse on their watch, Mr.
Perry told a small group of reporters.
South Korea?s foreign minister, Yun Byung-se, repeated that formulation today; Mr.
Tillerson did not.