This combination of photos show North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on April 15, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on April 29, 2017. Tough talk aside, talks between senior US and North Korean diplomats continue through a back channel previously used to negotiate the return of Americans held in North Korea. He began with a morning tweet: “Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely. The White House said both leaders agreed that North Korea must stop its “provocative and escalatory behavior.” Trump has pushed China to do more to pressure North Korea to halt its nuclear weapons program. Faced with perhaps his biggest international crisis as president, Trump has responded with an abundance of swagger and a lot of words.

Source: Indian Express August 12, 2017 07:14 UTC