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VietPress USA (Nov. 2nd, 2017): President Donald Trump will fly to Hawaii tomorrow on Friday 3rd Nov. 2017 for starting his first Asia visit trip. Trump will visit 5 countries including Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and Philippines. This will be the longest Asia tour ever made by an American sitting President in more than 25 years to date.
Before his trip, President Donald Trump expresses to Asian Leaders that "The World "running out of time" on North Korea! What Trump will do in the coming days to against North Korea?
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World 'running
out of time' on North Korea, Trump to tell Asia: White House
Steve Holland
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will tell leaders on a five-nation Asia
tour the world is “running out of time” on North Korea’s nuclear crisis and
that he will give his strategy to isolate Pyongyang a few months before making
adjustments, a top aide said on Thursday.
Trump leaves on
Friday for Hawaii, the first stop en route to Asia where he will visit Japan,
South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. It will be the longest Asia
tour by an American president in more than 25 years.
His goal will be
to increase international support for an effort to deprive North Korea of
resources as leverage to coerce it to give up nuclear weapons.
“The president
recognizes that we’re running out of time (to deal with North Korea) and will
ask all nations to do more,” White House national security adviser H.R.
McMaster told reporters at a briefing.
As part of the
U.S. effort to push China, North Korea’s neighbor and main trading partner, to
put more pressure on Pyongyang, the U.S. Treasury issued a formal ruling on
Thursday cutting off from the U.S. financial system a Chinese bank it accused
of laundering money for North Korean concerns.
In June, the
Treasury Department declared the Bank of Dandong a “primary money laundering
concern” for serving as a gateway for North Korea to access the U.S. and
international financial systems despite U.S. and U.N. sanctions. [nL1N1JQ1I4]
South Korea’s spy
agency told lawmakers on Thursday that North Korea may be planning a new
missile test, after brisk activity was spotted at its research facilities.
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The U.S. military
is keeping a close eye on North Korea, which conducted its last missile test on
Sept. 15 and its sixth and largest nuclear test on Sept. 3.
Two Guam-based
U.S. B-1B bombers flew through South Korean airspace and over the country’s
Pilsung Range in an exercise on Thursday, the U.S. Air Force said. [nL2N1N827P]
“The bilateral continuous
bomber presence mission was planned in advance ... and was not in response to
any current event,” the Air Force said in a statement.
‘DEAD END’
McMaster said
Trump would urge countries with the most influence over Pyongyang to “convince
its leaders that the pursuit of nuclear weapons is a dead end” and that it must
denuclearize.
“And he will
remind friend and foe alike that the United States stands ready to defend
itself and our allies using the full range of our capabilities,” said McMaster.
China will be
perhaps Trump’s most critical stop in Asia. There he will ask Chinese President
Xi Jinping to do more to rein in North Korea. Senior U.S. officials say China
considers North Korea a strategic asset and is reluctant to cut off resources
to Pyongyang for fear of triggering a refugee wave.
McMaster said
Trump, who has approved a variety of sanctions against North Korea, is at the
beginning of his drive for Pyongyang to give up nuclear weapons. Trump has
warned he would “totally destroy” North Korea if it threatened the United
States or its allies.
“I think we have
to be a little patient here for at least a few months to see what more we and
others can do, including China,” said McMaster. “I don’t think we need to
reassess our strategy now. I think we have to give it a couple of months, a few
months, and then see what adjustments we might need to make.”
Trump is expected
to press Xi to reduce oil exports to North Korea and coal imports from
Pyongyang and limit financial transactions. The Chinese leader is newly
ascendant after consolidating power at a Communist Party congress.
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