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"US: China to Be Given More Time to Pressure North Korea ... Less than a day after U.S. Vice President Mike Pence declared 'the era of strategic patience is over' regarding North Korea ... the current administration is giving Beijing time to use its economic and political influence on Pyongyang ... North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Kim In Ryong, accused the United States of pushing the Korean peninsula 'to the brink of a war,' warning that a 'thermo-nuclear war may break out at any moment on the peninsula' ... It is a questionable whether Trump is serious about the use of force against Kim or just bluffing to pressure him and the Chinese, according to one analyst. The national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis 'are well aware that North Korea is not Syria or Afghanistan, and that a military strike against the North is a risky gambit whose full import is impossible to anticipate,' a former CIA analyst on Korean issues, Sue Mi Terry, told VOA ... it is yet unclear what is replacing strategic patience"
http://www.voanews.com/a/us-china-time-patience-pressure-north-korea/3814221.html
