‘A CALIBRATED, PRACTICAL APPROACH’: Speaking at a meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers in London, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined to return fire in the wake of incendiary statements from North Korea in reaction to President Joe Biden’s reference to the North’s nuclear program as a “serious threat.”

“We’ll look to see not only what North Korea says but what it actually does in the coming days and months,” Blinken said at a joint appearance with British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab. “We have, I think, a clear, a very clear policy that centers on diplomacy, and it is, I think, up to North Korea to decide whether it wants to engage or not on that basis.”