With the United States and North Korea locked in a high-stakes nuclear standoff and trading fiery insults, Pence said no talks were scheduled, but suggested a meeting may not be rebuffed. Kim will become the most senior-ranked North Korean official to ever cross the Demilitarized Zone into the South. And that is that North Korea must once and for all abandon its nuclear weapons program and ballistic missile ambitions,” he said. “North Korea can have a better future than the militaristic path and the path of provocation and confrontation that it’s on. With an estimated 30,000 US personnel stationed on the Korean peninsula and Seoul within range of North Korean artillery, any conflict there would almost certainly be devastating.

Source: New Strait Times February 06, 2018 23:48 UTC