Tensions are rising between the US and North Korea, after yesterday's failed missile launch from Pyongyang. Speaking is Vice President Mike Pence, who is in Seoul, South Korea, a few kilometers from the enemy country: Trump's right-hand man begins a 10-day tour of Asia from there. “The era of strategic patience is over – said Pence -, the US and its allies will use peaceful means or ultimately any means necessary to protect South Korea and stabilize the region”.
Pence then said Trump hopes China will use its 'extraordinary levers' to make Pyongyang abandon its missile and nuclear programme. The US vice president this morning visited a military base near the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a strip of 'buffer' land established in 1953 in agreement with the United Nations that crosses the Korean peninsula along the 250 km border between the North and the South. The stage was not explicitly indicated in the official program of Pence's trip to South Korea.
Also US President Donald Trump he had broken his silence after the failed North Korean launch, returning to tweeting and stating that China is working with the US to solve "the North Korean problem". “Why should I call China a currency manipulator when it is working with us on the North Korean problem. Let's see what happens!” Trump wrote.
The United States is therefore evaluating "a series of options" in response to what it considers a provocative scheme by North Korea "to act in order to avoid the worst". AND' US National Security Advisor HR McMaster to confirm it after the failed missile launch of Pyongyang. "We are working with our allies and partners and with the Chinese leadership to develop a series of options - McMaster said speaking with the ABC - President Trump has been clear in stating that he will not accept the North Korean threat to the United States and its allies and partners in the region. He will act in the interest of the American people ”.
