"Well, if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will". North Korea reacted strongly today against the carrier's deployment.
Tillerson also said the US has "called on the government of China to take additional steps".
South Korea's acting president has warned of "greater provocations" by North Korea as tension on the Korean peninsula rises over concern the North may conduct a test of its military hardware in coming days.
The Supreme People's Assembly normally meets once or twice a year at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in central Pyongyang.
On Tuesday, President Trump took to Twitter and tweeted, "North Korea is looking for trouble", concerning its nuclear weapons development program and asked China for assistance. "If China decides to help, that would be great", Trump wrote. "If they failed to convene an SPA session, that would be an indication that there is a fundamental problem among DPRK elites", said Michael Madden, editor of the North Korea Leadership Watch website.
According to the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, a statement for North Korea's Foreign Ministry called the strikes against Syria "unpardonable".
The US says it is aimed at maintaining "readiness and presence" in the region.
The Navy said Saturday that the group was relocating toward the peninsula, following another North Korean ballistic missile test.
He said there is "common ground" between the USA and China because neither of the countries want North Korea to have nuclear weapons.
United Nations chief says Arabs must heal divisions
Abbas's talks at the White House are expected to follow a visit by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, scheduled for April 3. Arab leaders pose for a group photo during the Arab League summit in the Jordanian Dead Sea resort of Sweimeh on March 29, 2017.
South Korean officials took pains to quell talk in social media of an impending security crisis or outbreak of war. -South Korea wargames now underway and recent ballistic missile launches by the North. Pyongyang sees the annual maneuvers as a dress rehearsal for invasion, while the North's missile launches violate United Nations resolutions.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sent a message of congratulations to mark the event, lambasting "big powers" for their "expansionist" policy.
'This goes to prove that the USA reckless moves for invading the DPRK have reached a serious phase.
In a statement provided to CNN, Pyonyang said it would counter "reckless acts of aggression" no matter what "methods the USA wants to take".
Liberal presidential candidate Moon Jae-in vowed to speak directly with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un to resolve military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, if elected, in an interview with The Korea Herald on April 11.
Foreign media are not allowed to attend the meetings. The statement said the step was not unprecedented.
North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
Philipps reasoned that China - which provides indispensable economic support to North Korea - is much better positioned to leverage Kim Jong Un's paranoid empire that the United States ever could be.
In defiance of United Nations sanctions and worldwide efforts to stop North Korea's nuclear programs, Pyongyang has conducted five nuclear tests and the USA, in particular, is concerned there may be a sixth and efforts to develop a weapon capable of reaching us soil.
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