SEOUL: US military action against nuclear-armed North Korea is an “option on the table,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday after warning the policy of strategic patience with Pyongyang was over. North Korea has a long-standing ambition to become a nuclear power and conducted its first underground atomic test in 2006, in the teeth of global opposition. Allowing the North to retain its present level of weapons technology was not appropriate, Tillerson said in Seoul. North Korean soldiers watched from their side of the demarcation line—marked by cement blocks on the ground. At one point they were only a few feet from Tillerson, with one taking either video or photos.

Source: Manila Times March 17, 2017 10:07 UTC