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| ‘Talking is not the answer’ for North Korea, Trump tweets | ‘Talking is not the answer’ for North Korea, Trump tweets |
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| Washington has been paying Pyongyang “extortion money” for over two decades, US President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Wednesday. | |
| According to Trump, the US has been in talks with North Korea all that time. | |
| However, the US leader's latest tweet appears to reject diplomacy as a possible solution to the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula. | |
| READ MORE: Trump says 'all options are on the table for North Korea' – White House statement | |
| Trump's tweet comes following an official statement released by the White House, in which the president said that “all options are on the table” in regard to the current tensions in East Asia. | |
| On Tuesday, Pyongyang launched a ballistic missile which passed over Japan. Calling that move “threatening and destabilizing,” the US leader said North Korea “has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior.” | |
| Washington has sided with Tokyo and Seoul, with the three nations claiming they are facing a "grave and growing direct threat" from Pyongyang. | |
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