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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday the US was willing to hold talks with North Korea providing Pyongyang dropped its nuclear threat.
“We do not seek a regime change, 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 told a press conference.
“We are not your enemy … but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond,” Mr Tillerson said.
Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
