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Rex Tillerson: Before dialogue, North Korea must blink

By Joel Gehrke
Published August 15, 2017 3:27pm ET
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Rex Tillerson: Before dialogue, North Korea must blink
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens as he is asked a question about North Korea after he spoke on the release of the 2016 annual report on International Religious Freedom, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) | Susan Walsh

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stressed Tuesday that the Trump administration will only begin a dialogue with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un once Kim agrees to abandon his nuclear program.

“We continue to be interested in finding a way to get to dialogue, but that’s up to him,” Tillerson said of Kim at the State Department Tuesday.

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