The U.S. government is preserving all options for dealing with an increasingly belligerent North Korea, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday.
Haley also pointed out the country’s two nuclear tests and numerous ballistic missile launches, including one off the coast of Japan just this week, in defending the continuation of joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, which commenced last week and are scheduled to run through April.
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“We have not seen any goodwill at all coming from North Korea,” Haley said. “I appreciate all my counterparts wanting to talk about talks and negotiations (but) we are not dealing with a rational person.” With any other country, the United States would be seeking negotiations, she said. “This is not a rational person, who has not had rational acts, who is not thinking clearly.” Haley said the United States is re-evaluating how it is going to deal with North Korea going forward “and we are making those decisions now and will act accordingly.” “We’re not ruling anything out and we’re considering every option that’s on the table,” she said.
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