Note that once North Korea's threat disappears, the entire peninsula will become a "no nukes" zone.
North Korea's deputy United Nations ambassador has accused the United States of turning the Korean Peninsula into "the world's biggest hotspot" and creating "a risky situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment".
US President Donald Trump took a moment at the White House Easter egg roll Monday to deliver a terse message to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un: "Got to behave".
One month ago, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson mused that if North Korea didn't end its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, why, Japan and South Korea might have to acquire their own nuclear arsenals.
Pence arrived in Japan on Tuesday and met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for discussions on security and trade.
A day after North Korea said it would regularly test missiles, the United States military is considering shooting down the missile tests to pressure the country into denuclearisation.
Vice-Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol told the BBC that North Korea believed its nuclear weapons "protect" it from the threat of USA military action.
South Korea's acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, told a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that South Korea would strengthen its alliance with the United States and closely cooperate with China to rein in North Korea. Trump fanned the flames by saying, "We're sending an armada", on Fox News.
A recent United States Trade Representative (USTR) Trade Policy Agenda report criticized the US trade deficit with South Korea saying, "This is not the outcome the American people expected from that agreement".
At the military parade Saturday, North Korea unveiled what appeared to be three types of ICBMs in a show of force, vowing to respond with nuclear attacks to Washington's possible pre-emptive strike.
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"Now there is a United States without hesitations, preparing a military attack at a sovereign state while claiming peace by strength".
South Korea's government on Wednesday outlined measures to help local airlines better cope with the drop in traffic on their China routes amid a diplomatic row over the deployment of an advanced USA anti-missile system here.
After referencing Pence's trip, Earhardt asked Trump whether he has ruled out a military strike against North Korea.
"They would be acquiring these stockpiles at great cost to themselves".
Kim stressed that US-South Korean military exercises being staged now are the largest-ever "aggressive war drill" aimed at his country, formally the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
"I've seen that the United States has reiterated it is willing to use political and diplomatic means to resolve this, as this is their first choice", he told reporters in Beijing.
The Vice President praised the good economic relations between the two countries but stressed the need to "be honest about where our trade relationship is falling short".
Pushing his "America First" agenda, Trump has ordered a country-by-country, product-by-product review to determine the reasons for the USA trade deficits, saying he aims to promote "fair" trade.
Shi Yinhong, professor of global relations at Renmin University of China, told The Post that if the Trump administration continues its verbal threats and further boosts its naval presence in the area, it could prompt China to "shift from suppressing North Korea to opposing the United States". In February it banned imports of North Korean coal and reports in Chinese media have raised the possibility of restricting shipments of oil to the isolated North if the tests continue.
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